Consensus-based recommendations for standardizing terminology and reporting adverse events for emergency department procedural sedation and analgesia in children.

Maala Bhatt; Robert M Kennedy; Martin H Osmond; Baruch Krauss; John D McAllister; J. Mark Ansermino; Lisa M Evered; Mark G Roback

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Consensus-based recommendations for standardizing terminology and reporting adverse events for emergency department procedural sedation and analgesia in children.

May 13, 2009

Bhatt M, Kennedy RM, Osmond MH, et al. Ann Emerg Med. 2008;53(4).

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