Analgesia in the elderly. Practical treatment recommendations

Drugs and Aging

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 311-318

  Drage, Michael P ^a   Schug, Stephan A ^b  

^a AUCKLAND CITY HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ACICLOVIR; ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; BISPHOSPHONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; BUPRENORPHINE; CALCITONIN; CALCITRIOL; CAPSAICIN; CLONIDINE; CODEINE; DEXTROPROPOXYPHENE; EMLA; ESTROGEN; FAMCICLOVIR; METHADONE; MISOPROSTOL; MORPHINE; NEFOPAM; NEW DRUG; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; NORPETHIDINE; OPIATE; PARACETAMOL; PENTAZOCINE; PETHIDINE; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; WARFARIN;

AGED; ANALGESIA; CONFUSION; CONSTIPATION; DIARRHEA; FLUSHING; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GERIATRICS; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HERPES; HUMAN; INTRANASAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; ISCHEMIA; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; NAUSEA; NEPHROTOXICITY; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; OSTEOPOROSIS; PAIN; PHYSIOTHERAPY; POSTHERPETIC NEURALGIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIDE EFFECT; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; TOPICAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; TRANSCUTANEOUS NERVE STIMULATION; TRANSDERMAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; VERTEBRA FRACTURE; VERTIGO; VOMITING;

EID: 0029907933     PISSN: 1170229X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/00002512-199609050-00002     Document Type: Review

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