Epidural anlgesia and intravenous patient-controlled analgesia result in similar rates of postoperative myocardial ischemia after aortic surgery

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 85, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1233-1239

  Bois, Sylvie ^a   Couture, Pierre ^a   Boudreault, Daniel ^a   Lacombe, Pierre ^a   Fugère, François ^a   Girard, Dominique ^a   Nadeau, Nelson ^a  

^a NOTRE DAME HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUPIVACAINE; FENTANYL; MORPHINE; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; AORTA SURGERY; ARTICLE; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; EPIDURAL CATHETER; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HOLTER MONITORING; HUMAN; HYPERCOAGULABILITY; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PATIENT CONTROLLED ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ST SEGMENT DEPRESSION; VASCULAR SURGERY; ABDOMINAL AORTA; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; PAIN ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

AGED; ANALGESIA, EPIDURAL; ANALGESIA, PATIENT-CONTROLLED; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; AORTA, ABDOMINAL; BUPIVACAINE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY, AMBULATORY; FEMALE; FENTANYL; HUMANS; MALE; MORPHINE; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0031284643     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000539-199712000-00010     Document Type: Article

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