Acute Hallucinatory Episode following Hexamethonium
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Acute hemodynamic effects of hexamethonium in normotensive man.
THE INCREASING clinical use of hexamethonium, a ganglion blocking agent, makes desirable a detailed knowledge of its acute hemodynamic effects in normotensive man. Recent work on dogs' indicates that the hexamethonium-induced fall in arterial pressure is accompanied by significant decrease in cardiac output with increase in the calculated total peripheral resistance. Accordingly, the authors co...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1956
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.1.4975.1088