Caveats of bispectral index monitoring in the pediatric population

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Volumn 128, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 14-16

  Shander, Aryeh ^a,b,c   Lobel, Gregg ^c  

^a Pain Management and Hyperbaric Medicine ^*

^b Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine   (United States)

^c ENGLEWOOD HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BISPECTRAL INDEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; EDITORIAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART FUNCTION; INTENSIVE CARE; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDATION; SEIZURE;

EID: 22244446798     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.128.1.14     Document Type: Editorial

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