Facilitating recovery from anesthesia: Assessing the costs and benefits of anesthetic drugs

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 110, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 273-275

  White, Paul F ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT; DESFLURANE; DROPERIDOL; GLYCOPYRRONIUM BROMIDE; ISOFLURANE; NEOSTIGMINE; ONDANSETRON; PROPOFOL; SEVOFLURANE; SUGAMMADEX; DRUG DERIVATIVE; ETHER DERIVATIVE; GENERIC DRUG; INHALATION ANESTHETIC AGENT;

AMBULATORY CARE; ANESTHESIST; ANESTHETIC RECOVERY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DRUG COST; EDITORIAL; ELECTIVE SURGERY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; EXTUBATION; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATOR; HUMAN; INFORMATION SYSTEM; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING; PATIENT MONITORING; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PHARMACY; POSTANESTHESIA CARE; POSTOPERATIVE NAUSEA AND VOMITING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOVERY ROOM; SEDATION; SPINAL ANESTHESIA; COST CONTROL; DEVICE REMOVAL; ECONOMICS; INHALATION ANESTHESIA; LENGTH OF STAY; NOTE;

ANESTHESIA RECOVERY PERIOD; ANESTHESIA, INHALATION; ANESTHETICS, INHALATION; COST SAVINGS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DEVICE REMOVAL; DRUG COSTS; DRUGS, GENERIC; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; ISOFLURANE; LENGTH OF STAY; METHYL ETHERS;

EID: 76249100087     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0b013e3181c4bfaa     Document Type: Editorial

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