General anesthesia, sleep, and coma

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 363, Issue 27, 2010, Pages 2638-2650

  Brown, Emery N ^a,b   Lydic, Ralph ^c   Schiff, Nicholas D ^d  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZODIAZEPINE; ETOMIDATE; OPIATE; PROPOFOL; ZOLPIDEM;

ANESTHETIC RECOVERY; BRAIN METABOLISM; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMA; DRUG MECHANISM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; NEUROTRANSMISSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SLEEP; UNCONSCIOUSNESS;

EID: 78650873111     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMra0808281     Document Type: Review

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