Nitrous oxide effect on relieving anxiety and pain in parturients under spinal anesthesia for caesarean section

Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Manouchehrian, Nahid ^a   Bakhshaei, Mohammad Hossein ^b  

^a Hamadan University of Medical Sciences   (Iran)

^b HAMADAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Cesarean section; Nitrous oxide; Spinal anesthesia; Visual analogue scale

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937692375     PISSN: 22287523     EISSN: 22287531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5812/aapm.16662     Document Type: Article

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