Tricks of the trade: Assessment of high-tech gear in special needs children

Clinical Pediatric Emergency Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 62-75

  Teoh, Doreen L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; GENTAMICIN; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; UROKINASE; VANCOMYCIN;

AIR EMBOLISM; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION; CELLULITIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID SHUNTING; CHILD; DEVICE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; GASTROTOMY; GRANULOMA; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART TAMPONADE; HUMAN; INDWELLING CATHETER; INGUINAL HERNIA; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; MEDIASTINITIS; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; NEWBORN CARE; PEDIATRICS; PERITONITIS; PHLEBITIS; PNEUMOTHORAX; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PSEUDOCYST; STOMACH FISTULA; STOMACH HEMORRHAGE; STOMACH MUCOSA INJURY; STOMACH TUBE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TRACHEOSTOMY; VEIN THROMBOSIS; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 0036120176     PISSN: 15228401     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1522-8401(02)90018-2     Document Type: Article

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