Epinephrine decreases postoperative requirements for continuous thoracic epidural fentanyl infusions

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 82, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 760-765

  Baron, Cynthia M ^a   Kowalski, Stephen E ^a   Greengrass, Roy ^a   Horan, Thomas A ^a   Unruh, Helmut W ^a   Baron, Christopher L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; FENTANYL;

ADULT; ANALGESIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG POTENTIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRATHECAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RESPIRATION DEPRESSION; SOMNOLENCE; THORACOTOMY; URINE RETENTION;

ANALGESIA, EPIDURAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; EPINEPHRINE; FEMALE; FENTANYL; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THORACIC SURGERY;

EID: 0029987996     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000539-199604000-00015     Document Type: Article

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