Ketamine enhances local anesthetic and analgesic effects of bupivacaine by peripheral mechanism: A study in postoperative patients

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 215, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 5-8

  Tverskoy, Mark ^a   Oren, Matatiahu ^a   Vaskovich, Michael ^a   Dashkovsky, Igor ^a   Kissin, Igor ^b  

^a Rebecca Sieff Government Hospital   (Israel)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Bupivacaine; Hyperalgesia ketamine; Local anesthetic effect; N Methyl D aspartate receptors; Postoperative analgesia

Indexed keywords

BUPIVACAINE; KETAMINE; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR;

ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; HERNIORRHAPHY; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

EID: 0030606814     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(96)12922-0     Document Type: Article

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