Sublingual midazolam premedication in children: A dose response study

Paediatric Anaesthesia

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 461-465

  Khalil, Samia ^a,b   Philbrook, Lisa ^a   Rabb, Mary ^a   Wagner, Kari ^a   Jennings, Chris ^a   Chuang, Alice Z ^a   Lemak, Noreen A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b MSB 5020 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Anaesthesia: outpatient; Premedication; Sublingual midazolam

Indexed keywords

HALOTHANE; MIDAZOLAM; NITROUS OXIDE;

ANXIETY NEUROSIS; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE TIME EFFECT RELATION; DRUG ABSORPTION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PEDIATRIC ANESTHESIA; PREMEDICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; SEDATION; SUBLINGUAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; TASTE;

ADJUVANTS, ANESTHESIA; ADMINISTRATION, SUBLINGUAL; AMBULATORY SURGICAL PROCEDURES; ANESTHESIA, INHALATION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; HUMANS; HYPNOTICS AND SEDATIVES; INFANT; MIDAZOLAM; PREMEDICATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0031724552     PISSN: 11555645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9592.1998.00286.x     Document Type: Article

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