Dexmedetomidine: A guide to its use for sedation in the US

Clinical Drug Investigation

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 561-567

  Keating, Gillian M ^a   Hoy, Sheridan M ^a   Lyseng Williamson, Katherine A ^a  

^a ADIS INTERNATIONAL LIMITED   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALFENTANIL; ANESTHETIC AGENT; ATROPINE; DEXMEDETOMIDINE; MIDAZOLAM; MORPHINE; PLACEBO; PROPOFOL; REMIFENTANIL;

AMBULATORY SURGERY; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; ATELECTASIS; BRADYCARDIA; BRONCHOSCOPY; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; COUGHING; DRUG DEVELOPMENT; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG EXCRETION; DRUG INDICATION; DRUG METABOLISM; DRUG MONITORING; DRUG TOLERABILITY; EXTUBATION; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPOTENSION; INTENSIVE CARE; LOADING DRUG DOSE; PATIENT POSITIONING; PHARMACOKINETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAMSAY SEDATION SCALE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RATING SCALE; RIGOR; SEDATION; SIDE EFFECT; SURGICAL PATIENT; UNITED STATES; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

DEXMEDETOMIDINE; DRUG APPROVAL; HUMANS; HYPNOTICS AND SEDATIVES; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

EID: 84863594420     PISSN: 11732563     EISSN: 11791918     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/11209820-000000000-00000     Document Type: Article

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