Analgesia following thoracotomy: A survey of Australian practice

Anaesthesia and Intensive Care

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 520-524

  Cook, T M ^a   Riley, R H ^a  

^a ROYAL PERTH HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Analgesia: postoperative, post thoracotomy; Surgery: thoracotomy

Indexed keywords

KETAMINE; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OPIATE; PARACETAMOL;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CRYOANESTHESIA; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; INTERCOSTAL NERVE BLOCK; PATIENT CONTROLLED ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIVATE HOSPITAL; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; THORACOTOMY; TRANSCUTANEOUS NERVE STIMULATION;

ACETAMINOPHEN; ANALGESIA; ANALGESIA, EPIDURAL; ANALGESIA, PATIENT-CONTROLLED; ANALGESICS, NON-NARCOTIC; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; ANESTHESIA DEPARTMENT, HOSPITAL; ANESTHETICS, DISSOCIATIVE; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; AUSTRALIA; CRYOTHERAPY; HOSPITALS, PRIVATE; HOSPITALS, PUBLIC; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; INTERCOSTAL NERVES; KETAMINE; NERVE BLOCK; PAIN CLINICS; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PLEURA; QUESTIONNAIRES; THORACOTOMY; TRANSCUTANEOUS ELECTRIC NERVE STIMULATION;

EID: 0031424021     PISSN: 0310057X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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