Guidelines for postoperative pain therapy

Current Opinion in Anaesthesiology

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 380-385

  Wulf, Hinnerk ^a   Neugebauer, Edmund ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; EDUCATION; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; EUROPE; PATIENT CONTROLLED ANALGESIA; PATIENT MONITORING; POSTOPERATIVE ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SAFETY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0030727433     PISSN: 09527907     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001503-199710000-00020     Document Type: Review

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