Postoperative intensive care unit drug fever caused by dexmedetomidine

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 108, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1589-1591

  Okabe, Tadashi ^a   Takeda, Shinhiro ^a   Akada, Shinji ^a   Hongo, Takashi ^a   Sakamoto, Atsuhiro ^a  

^a NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEXMEDETOMIDINE; ALPHA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; HYPNOTIC SEDATIVE AGENT;

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD EXAMINATION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DRUG FEVER; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; HUMAN; INFECTION; INTENSIVE CARE; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDATION; AORTA RUPTURE; BLOOD VESSEL TRANSPLANTATION; BODY TEMPERATURE; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; DRUG EFFECT; FEVER; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; TIME;

ADRENERGIC ALPHA-AGONISTS; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; AORTIC RUPTURE; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; BODY TEMPERATURE; DEXMEDETOMIDINE; FEVER; HUMANS; HYPNOTICS AND SEDATIVES; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 65349184527     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ane.0b013e31819f1985     Document Type: Article

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