Postoperative analgesia with intramuscular morphine at fixed rate versus epidural morphine or sufentanil and bupivacaine in patients undergoing major abdominal surgery

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 87, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1346-1353

  Broekema, Alida A ^a   Veen, Alexander ^a   Fidler, Vâclav ^a   Gielen, Mathieu J M ^b   Hennis, Pirn J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUPIVACAINE; ISOFLURANE; MORPHINE; SUFENTANIL;

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DROWSINESS; DRUG EFFICACY; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE ANALGESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0031738795     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/00000539-199812000-00025     Document Type: Article

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