Management of pain in childhood

Archives of Disease in Childhood: Education and Practice Edition

Volumn 92, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Harrop, J Emily ^a  

^a GREAT ORMOND STREET HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANALGESIC AGENT; ANESTHETIC AGENT; CHLOROETHANE; CODEINE; DIAMORPHINE; DICLOFENAC; EMLA; IBUPROFEN; MORPHINE; NITROUS OXIDE PLUS OXYGEN; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OPIATE; PARACETAMOL; SUCROSE; SWEET-EASE; TETRACAINE; TRAMADOL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BONE MARROW SUPPRESSION; BREAST FEEDING; BREAST MILK; BRONCHOSPASM; CHILD CARE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONSTIPATION; DRUG ABSORPTION; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG COST; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG ELIMINATION; DRUG FATALITY; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG METABOLISM; DRUG POTENCY; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION; HUMAN; KIDNEY BLOOD FLOW; LOW DRUG DOSE; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; PACIFIER; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; RESPIRATION DEPRESSION; SIDE EFFECT; STOMACH ACID SECRETION; STOMACH DISEASE; THROMBOCYTE FUNCTION; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ACETAMINOPHEN; ANALGESIA; ANALGESICS; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; ANESTHETICS, COMBINED; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ETHYL CHLORIDE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; NITROUS OXIDE; OXYGEN; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PEDIATRICS; SUCKING BEHAVIOR; SUCROSE;

EID: 34547687836     PISSN: 17430585     EISSN: 17430593     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/adc.2006.109447     Document Type: Article

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