The efficacy of perfusion index as an indicator for intravascular injection of epinephrine-containing epidural test dose in propofol-anesthetized adults

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 108, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 549-553

  Mowafi, Hany A ^a,b   Ismail, Salah A ^a   Shafi, Mohammed A ^a   Al Ghamdi, Abdulmohsin A ^a  

^a KING FAISAL UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b IMAM ABDULRAHMAN BIN FAISAL UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; DIAZEPAM; LIDOCAINE; PROPOFOL; ROCURONIUM; SUFENTANIL; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; INTRAVENOUS ANESTHETIC AGENT; VASOCONSTRICTOR AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG INSTILLATION; FEMALE; GENERAL SURGERY; HEART RATE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS ANESTHESIA; MALE; PERFUSION INDEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE OXIMETER; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; OXIMETRY; PERFUSION; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STATISTICS;

ADULT; ANESTHESIA, EPIDURAL; ANESTHESIA, INTRAVENOUS; ANESTHETICS, INTRAVENOUS; BLOOD PRESSURE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; EPINEPHRINE; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; OXIMETRY; PERFUSION; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROPOFOL; SUFENTANIL; VASOCONSTRICTOR AGENTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 59649115081     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ane.0b013e31818fc35b     Document Type: Article

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