Side effects of intrathecal and epidural opioids

Canadian Journal of Anaesthesia

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 1995, Pages 891-903

  Chaney, Mark A ^a  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

analgesia: morphine, fentanyl, sufentanil; analgesia: postoperative

Indexed keywords

FENTANYL; MORPHINE; OPIATE; SUFENTANIL;

EYE TOXICITY; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HERPES SIMPLEX; HUMAN; HYPERALGESIA; INTRATHECAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; NAUSEA; NEUROTOXICITY; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; RESPIRATION DEPRESSION; REVIEW; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SIDE EFFECT; URINE RETENTION; VOMITING;

ANALGESIA, EPIDURAL; ANIMAL; HUMAN; INJECTIONS, SPINAL; NARCOTICS; NAUSEA; PRURITUS; RESPIRATION; URINARY RETENTION; VOMITING;

EID: 0028788965     PISSN: 0832610X     EISSN: 14968975     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03011037     Document Type: Review

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