Procedural sedation and analgesia in a large UK Emergency Department: Factors associated with complications

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 28, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1036-1040

  Jacques, Keith G ^a   Dewar, Alistair ^b   Gray, Alasdair ^b   Kerslake, Dean ^b   Leal, Alexis ^b   Lees, Fiona ^c  

^a Stirling Royal Infirmary   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL INFIRMARY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c INFORMATION SERVICES DIVISION   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIZINE; ETOMIDATE; FENTANYL; FLUMAZENIL; KETAMINE; MIDAZOLAM; MORPHINE; NALOXONE; PROPOFOL;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGITATION; ANALGESIA; ANESTHESIA LEVEL; APNEA; ARTERIAL OXYGEN SATURATION; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION; BRADYCARDIA; BRONCHOSPASM; COMPLICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG CHOICE; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HIP SURGERY; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; LARYNX SPASM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL STAFF; ORTHOPEDIC MANIPULATION; OVERSEDATION; OXYGEN DESATURATION; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCEDURAL SEDATION AND ANALGESIA; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SEDATION; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; TEACHING HOSPITAL; UNITED KINGDOM; URBAN AREA; VOMITING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALGESIA; CONSCIOUS SEDATION; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HOSPITALS, URBAN; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 81855185345     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: 14720213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emj.2010.102475     Document Type: Article

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