Use of dexmedetomidine in a pediatric heart transplant patient.
Dexmedetomidine is a new sedative and analgesic agent that has a unique property of lack of respiratory depression. We describe a pediatric case in which the use of dexmedetomidine enabled us to successfully extubate a 12-year-old heart transplant patient with acute pneumonia after several failed attempts with the use of more conventional sedation.
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Department of Cardiac Critical Care, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, 3705 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213-2583, USA. Constantinos.Chrysostomou@chp.edu
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D002648:Child; D020878:Device Removal / Q000379:methods*; D020927:Dexmedetomidine / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D016027:Heart Transplantation; D006801:Humans; D006993:Hypnotics and Sedatives / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D007442:Intubation, Intratracheal / Q000009:adverse effects*; D008297:Male; D011014:Pneumonia / Q000209:etiology; D013771:Tetralogy of Fallot / Q000601:surgery
D006993:Hypnotics and Sedatives; D020927:Dexmedetomidine