Sarma V, Fry E N
Department of Anaesthetics, North Tees General Hospital, Hardwick, Stockton on Tees, Cleveland.
Anaesthesia. 1991 Jun;46(6):460-1. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.1991.tb11683.x.
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.
