Sublingual buprenorphine compared to morphine delivered by a patient-controlled analgesia system as postoperative analgesia after prostatectomy

Urologia Internationalis

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 227-229

  Gaitini, Louis ^a   Moskovitz, Boaz ^a   Katz, Edna ^a   Vaisberg, Alex ^a   Vaida, Sonya ^a   Nativ, Ofer ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Analgesia; Buprenorphine; Morphine; Patient controlled; Prostatectomy; Sublingual

Indexed keywords

BUPRENORPHINE; MORPHINE; OPIATE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREATHING RATE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; NAUSEA; PATIENT CONTROLLED ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATECTOMY; PULSE RATE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SUBLINGUAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; VOMITING;

EID: 0029804002     PISSN: 00421138     EISSN: 14230399     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000282920     Document Type: Article

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