Why do women wake up faster than men from propofol anaesthesia?

2005/09/17 by S.C. Hoymork, Siv Cathrine Høymork, J. Raeder +1 · 22 citations
Medicine · #Anesthesia #Anesthesia and Sedative Agents #Bispectral index #Hemodynamic Monitoring and Therapy #Hypnotic #Internal medicine #Medicine #Nausea and vomiting management #Plasma concentration #Propofol

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