A comparison of intrathecal morphine-6-glucuronide and intrathecal morphine sulfate as analgesics for total hip replacement

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 83, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1055-1059

  Grace, D ^a   Fee, J P H ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MORPHINE 6 GLUCURONIDE; MORPHINE SULFATE; PETHIDINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRATHECAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAUSEA; PATIENT CONTROLLED ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATION DEPRESSION; SPINAL ANESTHESIA; TOTAL HIP PROSTHESIS; VOMITING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALGESIA; ANALGESIA, PATIENT-CONTROLLED; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HIP PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INJECTIONS, SPINAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORPHINE; MORPHINE DERIVATIVES; NAUSEA; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; RESPIRATION; VOMITING;

EID: 0029964724     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000539-199611000-00027     Document Type: Article

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