Unrecognized obstructive sleep apnea in children: Caught on the wrong foot and lessons learnt!!!

Paediatric Anaesthesia

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 984-986

  Sinha, Renu ^a   Bose, Somnath ^a   Thangaswamy, Chitra Rajeshwari ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ATROPINE; FENTANYL; HALOTHANE; ISOFLURANE; NEOSTIGMINE; NITROUS OXIDE; OXYGEN; PARACETAMOL; PROPOFOL; SUXAMETHONIUM; VECURONIUM;

ANAMNESIS; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ANESTHESIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; ASSISTED VENTILATION; CASE REPORT; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; EYE SURGERY; FACE MASK; HUMAN; LARYNGEAL MASK; LETTER; MALE; OXYGEN SATURATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; SNORING; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ANESTHESIA, LOCAL; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; MALE; SLEEP APNEA, OBSTRUCTIVE;

EID: 51349157158     PISSN: 11555645     EISSN: 14609592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9592.2008.02663.x     Document Type: Letter

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