Postoperative pain control - the impact of an acute pain team

Acute Pain

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 7-13

  Lanigan, Colm ^a   Luffingham, Nikki ^a  

^a Department of Anaesthesia   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

acute pain team; epidural analgesia; pain management; patient controlled analgesia

Indexed keywords

EID: 0005905647     PISSN: 13660071     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1366-0071(98)80014-4     Document Type: Article

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