| ASA | American Society of Anesthesiologists |
| AUC | Area under the curve |
| BE | Base excess |
| BMI | Body mass index |
| BL | Baseline |
| CL | Clearance |
| C/T | Cafedrine/Theodrenaline |
| DBP | Diastolic blood pressure |
| EBE | Empirical Bayes estimates |
| EC50 | Half-maximum effective concentration |
| GOF | Goodness-of-fit |
| HR | Heart rate |
| IIV | Inter-individual variability |
| IV | Intravenous |
| K/PD | Kinetic/pharmacodynamic |
| MAP | Mean arterial pressure |
| NLME | Non-linear mixed-effects |
| PD | Pharmacodynamics |
| PK | Pharmacokinetics |
| PRE | Pre-surgery |
| RSE | Relative standard error |
| SAH | Spinal anesthesia-induced hypotension |
| SBP | Systolic blood pressure |
| UA | Umbilical arterial |
| V | Volume of distribution |