Minimum alveolar concentration: Ongoing relevance and clinical utility

Anaesthesia

Volumn 68, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 512-522

  Aranake, A ^a   Mashour, G A ^b   Avidan, M S ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESFLURANE; HALOTHANE; ISOFLURANE; NITROUS OXIDE; SEVOFLURANE;

ANESTHESIA LEVEL; ANESTHESIST; BISPECTRAL INDEX; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DEMENTIA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; HYPONATREMIA; HYPOTENSION; INTRAOPERATIVE AWARENESS; MINIMUM LUNG ALVEOLUS CONCENTRATION; NEUROBIOLOGY; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; REVIEW; SURGICAL MORTALITY;

ALGORITHMS; ANESTHESIA, INHALATION; ANESTHETICS, INHALATION; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDERS; HUMANS; PULMONARY ALVEOLI; REFERENCE STANDARDS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84876099272     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: 13652044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/anae.12168     Document Type: Review

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