Newer pharmacologic agents for procedural sedation of children in the emergency department-etomidate and propofol

Current Opinion in Pediatrics

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 200-203

  Rothermel, Lori K ^a  

^a GEISINGER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTODOXONE; ETOMIDATE; HYDROCORTISONE; LIDOCAINE; MIDAZOLAM; MORPHINE; OPIATE; PROPOFOL; STEROID 11BETA MONOOXYGENASE;

ADRENAL INSUFFICIENCY; AGITATION; ALLERGIC REACTION; ANALGESIA; APNEA; BOLUS INJECTION; BRADYCARDIA; CHILD CARE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONSCIOUSNESS; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG INFUSION; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; DRUG UTILIZATION; EMERGENCY WARD; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; HYPOXEMIA; HYPOXIA; INJECTION PAIN; LONG TERM CARE; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; MYOCLONUS; NAUSEA; PHARMACODYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATION DEPRESSION; REVIEW; SEDATION; SIDE EFFECT; TACHYCARDIA; VOMITING;

CHILD; CONSCIOUS SEDATION; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; ETOMIDATE; HUMANS; HYPNOTICS AND SEDATIVES; PROPOFOL;

EID: 0037377214     PISSN: 10408703     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00008480-200304000-00011     Document Type: Review

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