Paediatric day stay tonsillectomy service: Development and audit

Anaesthesia and Intensive Care

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 641-646

  Stewart, P C H ^a   Baines, D B ^a   Dalton, C ^a  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL AT WESTMEAD   (Australia)

Author keywords

Paediatric, tonsillectomy: Day stay, audit

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT; ANTIEMETIC AGENT; DEXAMETHASONE; HALOTHANE; HARTMANN SOLUTION; ISOFLURANE; NITROUS OXIDE; ONDANSETRON; OPIATE; PETHIDINE; PROPOFOL; SEVOFLURANE;

AMBULATORY SURGERY; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ANESTHESIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BLEEDING; CHILD; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MALE; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE VOMITING; RISK ASSESSMENT; TONSILLECTOMY;

EID: 0036798566     PISSN: 0310057X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0310057x0203000517     Document Type: Article

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