When Is a Patient Safe for Discharge After Procedural Sedation? The Timing of Adverse Effect Events in 1,367 Pediatric Procedural Sedations

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 627-635

  Newman, David H ^a   Azer, Melissa M ^b   Pitetti, Raymond D ^c   Singh, Sonia ^c  

^a ST LUKE S ROOSEVELT HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATROPINE; FENTANYL; KETAMINE; MIDAZOLAM; SEDATIVE AGENT;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; AGITATION; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; CHILD; CONFUSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSTONIA; EMERGENCY WARD; FACE EDEMA; FATIGUE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HEADACHE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; HYPOXIA; INSOMNIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAUSEA; NIGHTMARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RASH; RESTLESSNESS; SAFETY; SEDATION; SIDE EFFECT; SLURRED SPEECH; STRIDOR; VERTIGO; VOMITING;

EID: 0142166178     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0196-0644(03)00446-3     Document Type: Article

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