Effects of ketorolac versus bupivacaine coadministration during patient- controlled hydromorphone epidural analgesia after thoracotomy procedures

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 564-569

  Singh, Harbhej ^a   Bossard, Robert F ^a   White, Paul F ^a   Yeatts, Robert W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUPIVACAINE; HYDROMORPHONE; KETOROLAC;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFICACY; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; EPIDURAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LUNG FUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PATIENT CONTROLLED ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; THORACOTOMY;

AGED; ANALGESIA, EPIDURAL; ANALGESICS, NON-NARCOTIC; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; BUPIVACAINE; HUMANS; HYDROMORPHONE; KETOROLAC; LUNG; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; SELF ADMINISTRATION; THORACOTOMY; TOLMETIN;

EID: 0031038752     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000539-199703000-00018     Document Type: Article

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