Ketamine: A familiar drug we trust

Anesthesiology

Volumn 116, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 6-8

  Canet, Jaume ^a   Castillo, Jorge ^b  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI GERMANS TRIAS I PUJOL   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAZEPAM; KETAMINE; MIDAZOLAM; PROPOFOL; THIOPENTAL;

ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; BREATHING MUSCLE; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG SAFETY; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; LARYNX SPASM; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE HYPOTONIA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE;

ANESTHETICS, DISSOCIATIVE; ANIMALS; KETAMINE; MALE; RESPIRATION; RESPIRATORY MUSCLES; UNCONSCIOUSNESS;

EID: 84655169752     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: 15281175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ALN.0b013e31823da398     Document Type: Editorial

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