Risk of choking and aspiration during inpatient video-EEG monitoring

Epilepsy Research

Volumn 93, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 84-86

  Noe, Katherine H ^a   Tapsell, Lisa M ^a   Drazkowski, Joseph F ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Aspiration pneumonia; Epilepsy; Hypoxia; Seizure

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ADULT; AGED; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DRINKING; EATING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FOOD INTAKE; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NURSING INTERVENTION; PATIENT MONITORING; PATIENT POSITIONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK REDUCTION; SUCTION; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; VOMITING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INHALATION; INPATIENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OXYGEN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEIZURES; SUCTION; SUPINE POSITION; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78650514681     PISSN: 09201211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2010.10.014     Document Type: Article

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