Patient-controlled epidural analgesia after thoracotomy: A comparison of meperidine with and without bupivacaine

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 81-86

  Etches, Richard C ^a,c   Gammer, Terri Lynn ^b   Cornish, Rebecca ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c ROYAL BRISBANE AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUPIVACAINE; INDOMETACIN; PETHIDINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAUSEA; OLIGURIA; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CONTROLLED ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECTAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; THORACOTOMY; URINE VOLUME; VOMITING;

ADULT; AGED; ANALGESIA, EPIDURAL; ANALGESIA, PATIENT-CONTROLLED; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; BUPIVACAINE; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEPERIDINE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THORACOTOMY;

EID: 0030004025     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000539-199607000-00014     Document Type: Article

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