A comparison of variable-dose patient-controlled analgesia with fixed- dose patient-controlled analgesia

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 83, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1060-1064

  Love, David R ^a   Owen, Harry ^a   Ilsley, Anthony H ^a   Plummer, John L ^a   Hawkins, Russell M ^a   Morrison, Anne ^a  

^a FLINDERS MEDICAL CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MORPHINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE TIME EFFECT RELATION; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC SURGERY; HIP ARTHROPLASTY; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; KNEE ARTHROPLASTY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAUSEA; PATIENT CONTROLLED ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SLEEP; VOMITING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALGESIA, PATIENT-CONTROLLED; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; ARTHROPLASTY; FEMALE; GENITALIA, FEMALE; HIP JOINT; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; KNEE JOINT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORPHINE; NAUSEA; OXYHEMOGLOBINS; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; SLEEP; VOMITING;

EID: 0029858215     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000539-199611000-00028     Document Type: Article

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