Paediatric conscious sedation: Views and experience of specialists in paediatric dentistry

British Dental Journal

Volumn 207, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Woolley, S M ^a   Hingston, E J ^a   Shah, J ^a   Chadwick, B L ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYPNOTIC SEDATIVE AGENT; INHALATION ANESTHETIC AGENT; NITROUS OXIDE;

ANESTHESIOLOGY; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONSCIOUS SEDATION; DENTAL ANESTHESIA; DENTAL CARE; DENTAL EDUCATION; DENTISTRY; EDUCATION; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LONG TERM CARE; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRE; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANESTHESIA, DENTAL; ANESTHESIOLOGY; ANESTHETICS, INHALATION; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CHILD; CONSCIOUS SEDATION; DENTAL CARE FOR CHILDREN; DENTAL SERVICE, HOSPITAL; DENTIST'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; EDUCATION, DENTAL; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; HYPNOTICS AND SEDATIVES; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; LIFE SUPPORT CARE; NITROUS OXIDE; PEDIATRIC DENTISTRY; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 70349498788     PISSN: 00070610     EISSN: 17417503     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bdj.2009.664     Document Type: Article

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