Is a fall in baseline heart rate a reliable predictor of a successful single shot caudal epidural in children?

Paediatric Anaesthesia

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 552-556

  Ghai, Babita ^a,b   Makkar, Jeetinder Kaur ^a   Behra, Bikram Kishore ^a   Rao, Krishna Prasad ^a  

^a POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

^b Teachers Flat No 3   (India)

Author keywords

Anesthesia: caudal epidural; Local anesthetic: bupivacaine; Patients: pediatric

Indexed keywords

BUPIVACAINE; HALOTHANE;

ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ARTICLE; BRADYCARDIA; CAUDAL ANESTHESIA; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; FEMALE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HEART RATE; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEEDLE; PEDIATRICS; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SKIN INCISION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; UMBILICUS;

ANESTHESIA, CAUDAL; ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; ANESTHESIA, LOCAL; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 34248178988     PISSN: 11555645     EISSN: 14609592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9592.2006.02179.x     Document Type: Article

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