Premedication for Tracheal Intubation in Neonates: Confusion or Controversy?

Seminars in Perinatology

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 309-317

  Carbajal, Ricardo ^a   Eble, B ^b   Anand, K J S ^b  

^a ARMAND TROUSSEAU HOSPITAL   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

analgesia; intubation; neonate; pain; premedication; sedation; trachial

Indexed keywords

ALFENTANIL; ANALGESIC AGENT; ANESTHETIC AGENT; ATRACURIUM; ATROPINE; FENTANYL; GLYCOPYRRONIUM BROMIDE; HALOTHANE; KETAMINE; MIDAZOLAM; MIVACURIUM; MORPHINE; MUSCLE RELAXANT AGENT; NITROUS OXIDE; PANCURONIUM; PETHIDINE; PLACEBO; PROPOFOL; REMIFENTANIL; SEDATIVE AGENT; SUXAMETHONIUM; THIOPENTAL;

CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFUSION; DELIVERY ROOM; DRUG EFFECT; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; HUMAN; LARYNGOSCOPY; PREMEDICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; REVIEW; SEDATION; WAKEFULNESS;

ANALGESICS; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; HYPNOTICS AND SEDATIVES; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; INTENSIVE CARE, NEONATAL; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; MUSCLE RELAXANTS, CENTRAL; PAIN; PREMEDICATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 34648832048     PISSN: 01460005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.semperi.2007.07.006     Document Type: Review

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