Spinal hypotension during elective cesarean delivery: Closer to a solution

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 111, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1093-1095

  Dyer, Robert A ^a   Reed, Anthony R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPHEDRINE; GLYCOPYRRONIUM BROMIDE; LIDOCAINE; METHOXAMINE; PHENYLEPHRINE;

ANESTHESIA COMPLICATION; CESAREAN SECTION; DRUG MEGADOSE; EDITORIAL; ELECTIVE SURGERY; HEART OUTPUT; HEART RATE; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPOTENSION; LOW DRUG DOSE; NAUSEA; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PATIENT MONITORING; PRESSORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINUS BRADYCARDIA; SPINAL ANESTHESIA; SPINAL HYPOTENSION; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; VOMITING;

EID: 78149456751     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0b013e3181ea5f77     Document Type: Editorial

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