(Hering) Staff Anesthesiologist.
(Ihmsen) Research Assistant.
(Langer, Uhrlau) Resident.
(Dinkel) Associate Professor of Anesthesiology.
(Geisslinger) Associate Professor of Pharmacology.
(Schuttler) Professor of Anesthesiology and Chairman.
Received from the Department of Anesthesiology, Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany. Submitted for publication February 8, 1996. Accepted for publication August 23, 1996. Supported by a grant from Pharmacia AB, Stockholm, Sweden, and in part by BMFT 01 EC 9403. Presented in part at the annual meeting of the American Society of Anesthesiologists, October 15-19, 1994, San Francisco, California.
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