Decreased heart rate and blood pressure in a recent cardiac transplant patient after spinal anesthesia

Canadian Journal of Anesthesia

Volumn 51, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 829-833

  Allard, René ^a   Hatzakorzian, Roupen ^a   Deschamps, Alain ^a   Backman, Steven B ^a  

^a ROYAL VICTORIA HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUPIVACAINE; CATECHOLAMINE; MIDAZOLAM;

ADRENAL MEDULLA; AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER TUMOR; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BRADYCARDIA; CARDIOVASCULAR RESPONSE; CASE REPORT; CATECHOLAMINE RELEASE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DERMATOME; DRUG TOLERABILITY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; HEART RATE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LITHOTOMY; LUMBAR SPINAL CORD; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; MUSCLE REINNERVATION; PATIENT POSITIONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY STIMULATION; SPINAL ANESTHESIA; THORACIC SPINAL CORD; TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION; VEIN ANASTOMOSIS;

EID: 9544252167     PISSN: 0832610X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03018459     Document Type: Article

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