Paediatric day surgery: Revisiting the University Hospital of the West Indies experience

West Indian Medical Journal

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 320-325

  Scarlett, M ^a   Crawford Sykes, A ^a   Thomas, M ^a   Duncan, N D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALIMEMAZINE TARTRATE; ATRACURIUM; ATROPINE; BUPIVACAINE; CISATRACURIUM; DESFLURANE; DICLOFENAC; DICLOFENAC POTASSIUM; FENTANYL; HALOTHANE; KETAMINE; LIDOCAINE; MIDAZOLAM; MORPHINE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OPIATE; PARACETAMOL; PETHIDINE; PROPOFOL; ROCURONIUM; ROPIVACAINE; SEVOFLURANE; THIOPENTAL;

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AMBULATORY SURGERY; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; CHILD; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; CIRCUMCISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DRUG COST; DRUG INTERMITTENT THERAPY; DRUG SAFETY; FEMALE; FEVER; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GASTRITIS; GENDER BIAS; GENERAL SURGERY; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE FINANCING; HERNIORRHAPHY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INGUINAL HERNIA; LARYNGEAL MASK; LOADING DRUG DOSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ORCHIDOPEXY; PATIENT SAFETY; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PSYCHOTRAUMA; RESPIRATION DEPRESSION; REVIEW; TIME MANAGEMENT; UMBILICAL HERNIA; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMBULATORY SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PROGRAM EVALUATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; WEST INDIES;

EID: 37349068801     PISSN: 00433144     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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