Continuous epidural ropivacaine 0.2% for analgesia after lower abdominal surgery

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 784-790

  Etches, Richard C ^a,i   Writer, W D R ^b   Ansley, David ^c   Nydahl, Per Anders ^d   Ong, Bill Y ^e   Lui, A ^f   Badner, Neal ^g   Kawolski, Steve ^e   Muir, Holly ^b   Shukla, Ramesh ^b   Beattie, W Scott ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c VANCOUVER GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^d ÖREBRO MEDICAL CENTRE HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^e Women's Hospital   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^g LONDON HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

^h MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

ⁱ ROYAL BRISBANE AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MORPHINE; ROPIVACAINE;

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTINUOUS EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; EPIDURAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTOR NERVE BLOCK; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATIENT CONTROLLED ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ABDOMEN; ADULT; AGED; AMIDES; ANALGESIA, EPIDURAL; ANALGESIA, PATIENT-CONTROLLED; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0030985131     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000539-199704000-00016     Document Type: Article

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