An atypical presentation of fentanyl rigidity following administration of low dose fentanyl in a child during intraoperative period

Paediatric Anaesthesia

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1115-1117

  Elakkumanan, Lenin Babu ^a   Punj, Jyotsna ^a   Talwar, Praveen ^a   Rajaraman, Prabhu ^a   Pandey, R ^a   Darlong, V ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FENTANYL; PARACETAMOL;

ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ANESTHESIA LEVEL; BREATHING RATE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CRYPTORCHISM; GENERAL CONDITION IMPROVEMENT; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LARYNGEAL MASK; LETTER; LOW DRUG DOSE; MALE; MANUAL VENTILATION; MUSCLE RIGIDITY; PEDIATRIC ANESTHESIA; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANESTHETICS, INHALATION; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRYPTORCHIDISM; FENTANYL; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; ISOFLURANE; MALE; MUSCLE RIGIDITY; NARCOTICS; TACHYCARDIA; THORAX;

EID: 53349173742     PISSN: 11555645     EISSN: 14609592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9592.2008.02602.x     Document Type: Letter

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