The effects of thoracic epidural anesthesia on hepatic blood flow in patients under general anesthesia

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 108, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1331-1337

  Meierhenrich, Rainer ^a   Wagner, Florian ^a   Schütz, Wolfram ^a   Rockemann, Michael ^a   Steffen, Peter ^a   Senftleben, Uwe ^a   Gauss, Albrecht ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEPIVACAINE; NORADRENALIN; CENTRAL DEPRESSANT AGENT; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; FEMALE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HEART OUTPUT; HEPATIC VEIN; HUMAN; LIVER BLOOD FLOW; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPEATED DRUG DOSE; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; BLOOD PRESSURE; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG EFFECT; ECHOGRAPHY; HEART RATE; HYPOTENSION; LIVER CIRCULATION; LIVER VEIN; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERTEBRA;

ADJUVANTS, ANESTHESIA; ADULT; AGED; ANALGESIA, EPIDURAL; ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; BLOOD PRESSURE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HEPATIC VEINS; HUMANS; HYPOTENSION; LIVER CIRCULATION; MALE; MEPIVACAINE; MIDDLE AGED; NOREPINEPHRINE; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 63849302871     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ane.0b013e3181966e6f     Document Type: Article

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