Premedication with low-dose oral midazolam reduces the incidence and severity of emergence agitation in pediatric patients following sevoflurane anesthesia

Acta Anaesthesiologica Sinica

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 169-177

  Ko, Yuan Pi ^a   Huang, Chun Jen ^a   Hung, Yu Chun ^a   Su, Nuan Yen ^a   Tsai, Pei Shan ^a   Chen, Chien Chuan ^a   Cheng, Ching Rong ^a  

^a MACKAY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Anesthetics, inhalation: sevoflurane; Midazolam

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANESTHETIC AGENT; HALOTHANE; MIDAZOLAM; MUSCLE RELAXANT AGENT; NITRIC OXIDE; OXIDE; SEDATIVE AGENT; SEVOFLURANE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; VOLATILE AGENT;

AGITATION; AMBULATORY SURGERY; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ANESTHETIC RECOVERY; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG SAFETY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HYPOVENTILATION; INCIDENCE; INHALATION; INTUBATION; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NURSE ATTITUDE; PAIN; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; PATIENT SCHEDULING; PEDIATRICS; POSTOPERATIVE ANALGESIA; PREMEDICATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SEDATION; SEPARATION ANXIETY; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VENTILATOR;

ANESTHESIA, INHALATION; ANTI-ANXIETY AGENTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; INFANT; METHYL ETHERS; MIDAZOLAM; PREANESTHETIC MEDICATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PSYCHOMOTOR AGITATION; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD;

EID: 0035695110     PISSN: 02541319     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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