Pretreatment with midazolam blunts the rise in intracranial pressure associated with ketamine sedation for lumbar puncture in children

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Michalczyk, Kathryn ^a   Sullivan, Janice E ^b,c   Berkenbosch, John W ^b  

^a is an assistant professor of nursing at Bethel College   (United States)

^b University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

intracranial pressure; ketamine; pediatric; procedural sedation

Indexed keywords

FENTANYL; KETAMINE; MIDAZOLAM; PROPOFOL;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEEP SEDATION; DELIRIUM; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; HALLUCINATION; HUMAN; INFANT; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MALE; MYOCLONUS; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PEDIATRIC HOSPITAL; PREMEDICATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SCORING SYSTEM; SEDATION; VOMITING;

ADOLESCENT; ANESTHETICS, DISSOCIATIVE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPNOTICS AND SEDATIVES; INFANT; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; KETAMINE; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDAZOLAM; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; SPINAL PUNCTURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84874935670     PISSN: 15297535     EISSN: 19473893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PCC.0b013e3182720459     Document Type: Article

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