How we have treated and cared patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy and severe congestive heart failure

No To Hattatsu

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 281-286

  Saito, Toshio ^a   Shinno, Susumu ^a  

^a TONEYAMA NATIONAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANXIOLYTIC AGENT; BENZODIAZEPINE; DIAZEPAM; ETIZOLAM; HALOPERIDOL; MORPHINE; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PENTAZOCINE; PHOSPHODIESTERASE; TRAZODONE;

ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONVALESCENCE; DIET THERAPY; DUCHENNE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY MONITORING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; MEDICAL STAFF; PAIN; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT MONITORING; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; QUALITY OF LIFE; REST; RESUSCITATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEDATION; SUPPORT GROUP; TERMINAL CARE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; ANXIETY; CAREGIVERS; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY, DUCHENNE; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TERMINAL CARE; TRANQUILIZING AGENTS;

EID: 22444443378     PISSN: 00290831     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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