Use of pharmaceuticals 'Off-Label' in the neonate

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Anaesthesiology

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 451-460

  Tobin, Joseph R ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Anaesthesia; Neonate; Off label; Pharmacology

Indexed keywords

BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; BERACTANT; CALFACTANT; DESFLURANE; DEXMEDETOMIDINE; DIHYDROMORPHINE; FENOLDOPAM MESILATE; FENTANYL; ISOFLURANE; LORAZEPAM; MIDAZOLAM; MORPHINE; NITRIC OXIDE; PARACETAMOL; PROPOFOL; PROSTAGLANDIN E1; RAPACURONIUM BROMIDE; SEVOFLURANE; SILDENAFIL;

ADRENAL SUPPRESSION; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; BRONCHOSPASM; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; DRUG APPROVAL; DRUG INDICATION; DRUG RESEARCH; DRUG SAFETY; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INSOMNIA; NEONATAL RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; NEWBORN; NEWBORN CARE; OFF LABEL DRUG USE; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPOFOL INFUSION SYNDROME; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SIDE EFFECT; UNITED STATES; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW;

CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; DRUG APPROVAL; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; NITRIC OXIDE; OFF-LABEL USE;

EID: 79952113247     PISSN: 15216896     EISSN: 1532169X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpa.2010.02.015     Document Type: Article

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