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Doxapram after general anaesthesia
Author(s) -
SARMA V.,
FRY E. N. S.
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
anaesthesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.839
H-Index - 117
eISSN - 1365-2044
pISSN - 0003-2409
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2044.1991.tb11683.x
Subject(s) - doxapram , medicine , shivering , anesthesia , placebo , general anaesthesia , surgery , pathology , alternative medicine
Summary A group of patients who developed postoperative shivering after receiving inhalational anaesthesia were assigned, at random, to receive either doxapram or a placebo under double‐blind conditions. A significantly higher proportion of patients stopped shivering after being given doxapram than after the placebo.