Optimizing the arrival, waiting, and NPO times of children on the day of pediatric endoscopy procedures

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 110, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 879-887

  Smallman, Bettina ^a   Dexter, Franklin ^b  

^a State University of New York Upstate Medical University: College of Medicine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIST; ARTICLE; CHILD; COLONOSCOPY; DIET RESTRICTION; ESOPHOGASTRODUODENOSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; OPERATING ROOM; PEDIATRIC ANESTHESIA; PH MEASUREMENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOVERY ROOM; SCHOOL CHILD; TIME MANAGEMENT;

EID: 77949290329     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0b013e3181ce6bbc     Document Type: Article

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