We studied 30 unpremedicated patients undergoing muscle biopsy under femoral nerve block to determine sedation levels reached with a Diprifusor® target‐controlled propofol infusion, in order to establish the equivalent of the ED~50~ for different levels of depth of sedation. Infusion was started at
Target-controlled infusion of propofol for a patient with myotonic dystrophy
✍ Scribed by Yasuhiro Morimoto; Masako Mii; Takao Hirata; Hiroaki Matayoshi; Takefumi Sakabe
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2005
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 107 KB
- Volume
- 19
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0913-8668
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