Treatment of opioid-induced pruritus with ondansetron: Report of four patients

Pharmacotherapy

Volumn 16, Issue 5 I, 1996, Pages 958-960

  Larijani, Ghassem E ^a   Goldberg, Michael E ^a   Rogers, Kenneth H ^a  

^a Department of Anesthesiology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIPHENHYDRAMINE; MORPHINE SULFATE; ONDANSETRON;

ADULT; ANESTHESIA COMPLICATION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHOLECYSTITIS; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; PELVIS LYMPHADENECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PROSTATE CARCINOMA; PRURITUS; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA;

ADULT; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; FEMALE; FENTANYL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORPHINE; ONDANSETRON; PRURITUS; SEROTONIN ANTAGONISTS;

EID: 0029780297     PISSN: 02770008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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