Strategies for preventing sedation accidents

Pediatric Annals

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 625-633

  Coté, Charles J ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARBITURIC ACID DERIVATIVE; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; CHLORAL HYDRATE; CHLORPROMAZINE; DIAZEPAM; FENTANYL; KETAMINE; MIDAZOLAM; MUSCLE RELAXANT AGENT; OPIATE; OPIATE ANTAGONIST; PENTOBARBITAL; PETHIDINE; PROMETHAZINE; SEDATIVE AGENT; SUXAMETHONIUM;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; BLOOD OXYGEN TENSION; CHEST WALL RIGIDITY; CHILD HOSPITALIZATION; CLINICAL EDUCATION; CONSCIOUSNESS; DENTAL ANESTHESIA; DEVICE; DRUG CONTRAINDICATION; DRUG FATALITY; DRUG FORMULATION; DRUG HALF LIFE; DRUG INDICATION; DRUG MONITORING; DRUG OVERDOSE; DRUG SAFETY; GLOTTIS; GLOTTIS RIGIDITY; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MEDICATION ERROR; MUSCLE RIGIDITY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OXYGEN BREATHING; PATIENT MONITORING; PEDIATRIC ANESTHESIA; PHARMACODYNAMICS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PULSE OXIMETRY; RESPIRATION DEPRESSION; REVIEW; RIGIDITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEDATION; SIDE EFFECT; TRAINING; TRANSCUTANEOUS CARBON DIOXIDE MONITORING;

EID: 23644443033     PISSN: 00904481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3928/0090-4481-20050801-11     Document Type: Review

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