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AAP Grand Rounds 4:60 (2000)
© 2000 American Academy of Pediatrics
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The authors undertook to determine the minimum time needed to cause anterograde amnesia in children following oral administration of midazolam. The study children involved were patients aged 510 years at Yale University Hospitals outpatient surgery center scheduled to undergo surgical procedures lasting 2 hours or less. Eighty children received 0.5 mg/kg of midazolam, while 33 patients in the control group received a placebo. Memory tests after midazolam were given 5, 10 and 20 minutes after the dose. The control group was tested 15
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