Clonidine in perioperative medicine and intensive care unit: More than an anti-hypertensive drug

Current Drug Targets

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 799-814

  Gregoretti, C ^a   BMoglia, ^b   Pelosi, P ^c   Navalesi, P ^d  

^a CTO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF INSUBRIA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN PIEDMONT   (Italy)

Author keywords

Alpha 2 agonists; Anaesthetic; Analgesia; Clonidine; Myocardial ischemia; Opioids; Sedation; Shivering

Indexed keywords

ALFENTANIL; ALPHA 2 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; BUPIVACAINE; CLONIDINE; DEXMEDETOMIDINE; DIAZEPAM; ENFLURANE; IMIDAZOLINE RECEPTOR; KETAMINE; LORAZEPAM; MEPIVACAINE; METOPROLOL; MIDAZOLAM; MORPHINE; NITROPRUSSIDE SODIUM; NITROUS OXIDE; PETHIDINE; PIRITRAMIDE; PLACEBO; PRILOCAINE; PROPOFOL; REMIFENTANIL; SUFENTANIL; TETRACAINE; ALPHA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT;

ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING; ANTINOCICEPTION; BALANCED ANESTHESIA; BISPECTRAL INDEX; BRADYCARDIA; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG BIOAVAILABILITY; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG DISTRIBUTION; DRUG DOSAGE FORM COMPARISON; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; DRUG MECHANISM; EVENING DOSAGE; HALF LIFE TIME; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; IMMUNOMODULATION; INTENSIVE CARE; LOADING DRUG DOSE; LOCUS CERULEUS; MAXIMUM PLASMA CONCENTRATION; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; NONREM SLEEP; OFF LABEL DRUG USE; OPTIMAL DRUG DOSE; PAIN; PATIENT CONTROLLED ANALGESIA; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PHARMACODYNAMICS; POSTOPERATIVE ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREMEDICATION; REM SLEEP; RESPIRATION DEPRESSION; REVIEW; SEDATION; SHIVERING; SIDE EFFECT; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANQUILIZING ACTIVITY; VASODILATATION; WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME; ARTICLE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT;

ADRENERGIC ALPHA-AGONISTS; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; CLONIDINE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; PERIOPERATIVE CARE;

EID: 70350769319     PISSN: 13894501     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/138945009788982478     Document Type: Review

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