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. 2013 Mar 15;8(3):e51787. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0051787

Table 1. Search Strategy.

Database: Ovid MEDLINE(R) <1950 to August Week 4 2008>
Search Strategy:
1 child$.mp. or child/(1500744)
2 (paediatric$ or pediatr$).mp. (163973)
3 infant/or infan$.mp. (864884)
4 young$.mp. (304417)
5 toddler.mp. (1117)
6 bab$.mp. (54771)
7 child,preschool/(625996)
8 (preschool or pre-school).mp. (627837)
9 adolesc$.mp. or adolescent/(1304128)
10 teenage$.mp. (10507)
11 youth$.mp. (21868)
12 or/1–11 (2734500)
13 (intensive care or critical care).mp. (90585)
14 intensive care units, pediatric.mp. (2630)
15 intensive care units, neonatal.mp. (6648)
16 picu.mp. (929)
17 p*ediatric intensive care.mp. (3149)
18 “critically ill”.mp. (16329)
19 ventilated.mp. (17171)
20 ventilat$.mp. (106904)
21 respiration, artificial.mp. (30372)
22 positive pressure respiration.mp. (13060)
23 intermittent positive pressure breathing.mp. (943)
24 intermittent positive pressure ventilation.mp. (2397)
25 (high frequency ventilation or high frequency oscillation).mp. (1912)
26 high frequency positive pressure ventilation.mp. (127)
27 (hfv or hfov).mp. (764)
28 high frequency jet ventilation.mp. (1084)
29 airway pressure release ventilation.mp. (78)
30 aprv {No Related Terms} (56)
31 continuous mandatory ventilation.mp. or continuous mandatory ventilation/(7)
32 cmv.mp. (14725)
33 intermittent mandatory ventilation.mp. (529)
34 (synchron$ intermittent mandatory ventilation or simv).mp. (206)
35 (pressure suppoprt ventilation or psv).mp. (1254)
36 (extracorporeal membrane oxygenation or ecmo or oxygenation, extracorporeal membrane).mp. (4039)
37 or/13–36 (223297)
38 (intravenous or iv).mp. (467655)
39 parenteral.mp. (63557)
40 inject$.mp. (556405)
41 infus$.mp. (224106)
42 (infus$ or infusions, intravenous).mp. (224106)
43 $venous.mp. (139547)
44 or/38–43 (1144844)
45 midazolam.mp. (7964)
46 midazolam hydrochloride.mp. (64)
47 midazolam maleate.mp. (26)
48 (dormicum or flormidal or versed or hypnovel or dormonid).mp. (496)
49 benzodiazepine.mp. or benzo$/(15817)
50 or/45–49 (22992)
51 (clonidine dihydrochloride or clonidine hydrochloride or clonidine monohydrobromide or clonidine monohydrochloride).mp. (200)
52 (clofelin or clopheline or dixarit or gemiton or hemiton or catapres or catapres*an or clophazolin or colfenil or isoglaucon or klofelin or klonefil or m-5041t or st-155).mp. (464)
53 (clonidine or clonidin$).mp. (15383)
54 or/51–53 (15506)
55 37 and 44 and 12 (8661)
56 50 and 55 (288)
57 53 and 55 (16)