Bradycardia during critical care intubation: Mechanisms, significance and atropine

Archives of Disease in Childhood

Volumn 97, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 139-144

  Jones, Peter ^a   Dauger, Stéphane ^b   Peters, Mark J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b HÔPITAL ROBERT DEBRÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATROPINE; ETOMIDATE; HALOTHANE; KETAMINE; MORPHINE; PROPOFOL; REMIFENTANIL; ROCURONIUM; SUFENTANIL; SUXAMETHONIUM; THIOPENTAL; VECURONIUM;

ANESTHESIA; ASYSTOLE; BRADYCARDIA; COMA; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; HALLUCINATION; HEART PERFUSION; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIA; HYPOVOLEMIC SHOCK; HYPOXIA; INCIDENCE; INTENSIVE CARE; INTUBATION; LARYNGOSCOPY; LETHARGY; MYDRIASIS; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NEONATAL RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOXYGENATION; REVIEW; SEPTIC SHOCK; SINUS TACHYCARDIA; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION; VAGUS REFLEX; VASOCONSTRICTION; VASODILATATION; XEROSTOMIA;

ANTI-ARRHYTHMIA AGENTS; ATROPINE; BRADYCARDIA; CHILD; CRITICAL CARE; EMERGENCIES; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL;

EID: 84856108238     PISSN: 00039888     EISSN: 14682044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/adc.2010.210518     Document Type: Review

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