Pharmacological sedation for cranial computed tomography in children after minor blunt head trauma

Pediatric Emergency Care

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1-7

  Hoyle, John D ^a,b   Callahan, James M ^c   Badawy, Mohamed ^d   Powell, Elizabeth ^e   Jacobs, Elizabeth ^f   Gerardi, Michael ^g   Melville, Kraig ^h   Miskin, Michelle ⁱ   Atabaki, Shireen M ^j   Dayan, Peter ^k   Holmes, James F ^l   Kuppermann, Nathan ^l  

^a WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY HOMER STRYKER MD SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SUNY UPSTATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

^e NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f HOLY CROSS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^g MORRISTOWN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^h Calvert Memorial Hospital   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^j GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^k Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons ^*  (United States)

^l UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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Author keywords

computed tomography; pharmacological sedation; traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

CHLORAL HYDRATE; DIPHENHYDRAMINE; DROPERIDOL; ETOMIDATE; FENTANYL; KETAMINE; LORAZEPAM; METHOHEXITAL; MIDAZOLAM; MORPHINE; PENTOBARBITAL; PROPOFOL; SEDATIVE AGENT; SEVOFLURANE;

APNEA; ARTICLE; BLUNT TRAUMA; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; HYPOXIA; LARYNX SPASM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEDATION; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; VOMITING;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONSCIOUS SEDATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEAD INJURIES, CLOSED; HUMANS; HYPNOTICS AND SEDATIVES; INFANT; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRAUMA CENTERS; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES;

EID: 84892986104     PISSN: 07495161     EISSN: 15351815     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PEC.0000000000000059     Document Type: Article

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