Monitoring electrical skin conductance: A tool for the assessment of postoperative pain in children?

Anesthesiology

Volumn 111, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 513-517

  Hullett, Bruce ^a   Chambers, Neil ^b   Preuss, James ^c   Zamudio, Italo ^a,c   Lange, Jonas ^d   Pascoe, Elaine ^b   Ledowski, Thomas ^c,d  

^a PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; FENTANYL; MORPHINE;

ACCURACY; ADOLESCENT; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FACE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; INFANT; LEG; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PAIN ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PREDICTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECOVERY ROOM; SCHOOL CHILD; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN CONDUCTANCE; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

EID: 69549084746     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: 15281175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ALN.0b013e3181b27c18     Document Type: Article

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