Preoperative dextromethorphan reduces intraoperative but not postoperative morphine requirements after laparotomy

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 87, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1135-1138

  Grace, Robert F ^a   Power, Ian ^a   Umedaly, Hamed ^a   Zammit, Alexandra ^a   Mersiades, Michael ^a   Cousins, Michael J ^a   Mather, Laurence E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEXTROMETHORPHAN; MORPHINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG POTENTIATION; HUMAN; LAPAROTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PATIENT CONTROLLED ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PREOPERATIVE TREATMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ABDOMEN; ADULT; AGED; ANALGESIA, PATIENT-CONTROLLED; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; ANTITUSSIVE AGENTS; DEXTROMETHORPHAN; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORPHINE; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE;

EID: 0031753499     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000539-199811000-00029     Document Type: Article

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