Complications of Endoscopy

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Clinics of North America

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 405-432

  Ginzburg, Lev ^a   Greenwald, David ^a   Cohen, Jonathan ^b  

^a MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; ANGIOTENSIN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; BENZOCAINE; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; CLONAZEPAM; DIAZEPAM; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DIPHENHYDRAMINE; DIURETIC AGENT; FENTANYL; FLUMAZENIL; INSULIN; INSULIN ASPART; INSULIN LISPRO; INSULIN ZINC SUSPENSION; ISOPHANE INSULIN; LIDOCAINE; LORAZEPAM; MACROGOL; MIDAZOLAM; MORPHINE; NALOXONE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OPIATE; ORAL ANTIDIABETIC AGENT; PETHIDINE; PROPOFOL; SODIUM DIHYDROGEN PHOSPHATE; SULFONYLUREA; UNINDEXED DRUG;

ANAPHYLAXIS; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ASPIRATION; COLON ULCER; COLONOSCOPY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; ELECTROLYTE DISTURBANCE; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; HYPOCALCEMIA; HYPOTENSION; INFECTION; INTESTINE PERFORATION; KIDNEY CALCIFICATION; MALLORY WEISS SYNDROME; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; NEPHROTOXICITY; PANCREATITIS; PERCUTANEOUS ENDOSCOPIC GASTROSTOMY; PNEUMOPERITONEUM; POLYPECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOMMENDED DRUG DOSE; REVIEW; SEDATION; SIDE EFFECT; SPLEEN INJURY; STOMACH FISTULA; SYNCOPE; THORAX PAIN; THROMBOEMBOLISM; WOUND INFECTION;

CONSCIOUS SEDATION; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; HUMANS; PATIENT SELECTION;

EID: 34249805995     PISSN: 10525157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.giec.2007.03.009     Document Type: Review

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