Complications in paediatric anaesthesia

Current Opinion in Anaesthesiology

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 262-267

  Lee, Charles ^a   Mason, Linda ^a,b  

^a LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Anaesthesia; Cardiac arrest; Complications; Paediatric

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT; ATROPINE; BUPIVACAINE; ENFLURANE; HALOTHANE; LEVOBUPIVACAINE; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; ROPIVACAINE; SEVOFLURANE; SUXAMETHONIUM;

ANESTHESIA COMPLICATION; BLEEDING; BRADYCARDIA; CARDIOTOXICITY; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAUDAL ANESTHESIA; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DRUG SAFETY; EEG ABNORMALITY; FOLLOW UP; HEART ARREST; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; HYPERKALEMIA; LARYNX SPASM; MALPRACTICE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MYOCARDIAL DISEASE; MYOPATHY; NONHUMAN; PEDIATRIC ANESTHESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; REVIEW; RHABDOMYOLYSIS; SEIZURE; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; VASCULAR DISEASE;

ANESTHESIA; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; INFANT; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 33744991287     PISSN: 09527907     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.aco.0000192787.93386.9c     Document Type: Review

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