Pain management in the pediatric intensive care unit

Current Opinion in Pediatrics

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 246-253

  Chambliss, C Robert ^a   Anand, K J S ^a  

^a Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; CLONIDINE; FENTANYL CITRATE; KETAMINE; KETOROLAC; LIDOCAINE; METHADONE; MORPHINE SULFATE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OPIATE; PETHIDINE; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

AGITATION; ANALGESIA; CHRONIC PAIN; CRITICAL ILLNESS; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PATIENT CONTROLLED ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; REVIEW; SEDATION; SIDE EFFECT; SPINAL ANESTHESIA; TOPICAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; TRANSDERMAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

ANALGESICS; ANESTHESIA, CONDUCTION; ANESTHETICS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; CHILD; CRITICAL ILLNESS; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; NARCOTICS; PAIN; PEDIATRICS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 0030745825     PISSN: 10408703     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00008480-199706000-00011     Document Type: Review

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