Effective pain relief with continuous intrapleural bupivacaine after thoracotomy in infants and children

Paediatric Anaesthesia

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 303-310

  Semsroth, Margot ^a   Plattner, Olga ^a   Horcher, Ernst ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Bupivacaine; Intrapleural; Regional; Thoracotomy

Indexed keywords

BUPIVACAINE; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT;

ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; CHILD; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; INFANT; INFUSION; METHODOLOGY; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PLEURA; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; THORACOTOMY;

ANALGESIA; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; BUPIVACAINE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFUSIONS, PARENTERAL; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PLEURA; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THORACOTOMY;

EID: 0029682804     PISSN: 11555645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9592.1996.tb00454.x     Document Type: Article

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