Death or neurologic injury after tonsillectomy in children with a focus on obstructive sleep apnea: Houston, we have a problem!

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 118, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1276-1283

  Coté, Charles J ^a   Posner, Karen L ^b   Domino, Karen B ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; APNEA; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMORBIDITY; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; ETHNICITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NERVE INJURY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TONSILLECTOMY;

ADOLESCENT; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; ANESTHESIA RECOVERY PERIOD; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMORBIDITY; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DRUG OVERDOSE; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; INFANT; INSURANCE CLAIM REVIEW; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; MALE; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SLEEP APNEA, OBSTRUCTIVE; TONSILLECTOMY; TRAUMA, NERVOUS SYSTEM; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84901296053     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: 15267598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0b013e318294fc47     Document Type: Article

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