Deep anesthesia suppresses ventricular tachyarrhythmias in rabbit model of the acquired long QT syndrome

Circulation Journal

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 89-93

  Inaba, Hideko ^a   Hayami, Noriyuki ^a   Ajiki, Kosuke ^b   Kunishima, Tomoyuki ^a   Watanabe, Hidenori ^a   Tsutsui, Kenta ^a   Yamagishi, Noboru ^a   Yamagishi, Satoshi ^a   Sugiura, Anna ^a   Mikamo, Takashi ^a   Murakawa, Yuji ^a  

^a TEIKYO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anesthesia; Ketamine; Ventricular tachyarrhythmia; Xylazine

Indexed keywords

ALPHA 2 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; KETAMINE; METHOXAMINE; NIFEKALANT; XYLAZINE;

ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ANESTHESIA LEVEL; ANESTHESIA MECHANISM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIARRHYTHMIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MEGADOSE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY MONITORING; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HEART REPOLARIZATION; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; LOW DRUG DOSE; MALE; NONHUMAN; QT INTERVAL; QT PROLONGATION; RABBIT;

ADRENERGIC ALPHA-2 RECEPTOR AGONISTS; ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; ANESTHETICS, COMBINED; ANIMALS; ANTI-ARRHYTHMIA AGENTS; BLOOD PRESSURE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; KETAMINE; LONG QT SYNDROME; MALE; METHOXAMINE; PYRIMIDINONES; RABBITS; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR; TIME FACTORS; XYLAZINE;

EID: 78651248548     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: 13474820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.CJ-10-0478     Document Type: Article

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