Pediatric sedation: Still a hard long way to go

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 186-187

  De Carvalho, Werther Brunow ^a   Machado Fonseca, Marcelo Cunio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

2 agonist; Analgesics; Dexmedetomidine; Drugs; Sedatives

Indexed keywords

DEXMEDETOMIDINE; MIDAZOLAM; SEVOFLURANE;

ANALGESIA; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; OFF LABEL DRUG USE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDATION;

CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CHILD; CONSCIOUS SEDATION; DEXMEDETOMIDINE; HUMANS; HYPNOTICS AND SEDATIVES; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, PEDIATRIC; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; RECEPTORS, ADRENERGIC, ALPHA-2; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; THORACIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 33645535373     PISSN: 15297535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PCC.0000201336.16278.D4     Document Type: Editorial

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