Assessment of withdrawal symptoms in pediatric intensive care patients, a new future?

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 654-655

  Ista, Erwin ^a   Van Der Voort, Edwin ^a  

^a SOPHIA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZODIAZEPINE; FENTANYL; MIDAZOLAM; OPIATE; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT;

AGITATION; ANXIETY; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DRUG DEPENDENCE; DRUG EXPOSURE; DRUG TOLERABILITY; EDITORIAL; FEVER; HALLUCINATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INSOMNIA; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MORO REFLEX; NURSE; OPIATE ADDICTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; REFLEX; SCORING SYSTEM; SEDATION; SEIZURE; SIDE EFFECT; SWEATING; TACHYCARDIA; TREATMENT DURATION; TREMOR; WEANING; WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME; CHILD; INFANT; NEWBORN; NOTE; NURSING ASSESSMENT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

ANALGESICS, OPIOID; BENZODIAZEPINES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, PEDIATRIC; NURSING ASSESSMENT; SUBSTANCE WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME;

EID: 60549112852     PISSN: 15297535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PCC.0b013e31818c86e7     Document Type: Editorial

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