Fasting and Emergency Department Procedural Sedation and Analgesia: A Consensus-Based Clinical Practice Advisory

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 454-461

  Green, Steven M ^a   Roback, Mark G ^b   Miner, James R ^c   Burton, John H ^d   Krauss, Baruch ^e  

^a LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c HENNEPIN COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d ALBANY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; KETAMINE; MORPHINE; SEDATIVE AGENT;

ANALGESIA; ANESTHESIA LEVEL; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; DIET RESTRICTION; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY WARD; HUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT SAFETY; PATIENT SELECTION; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEDATION;

ANALGESIA; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; CONSCIOUS SEDATION; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FASTING; HUMANS; RESPIRATORY ASPIRATION;

EID: 33947173087     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2006.08.017     Document Type: Article

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