Dextromethorphan and pain after total abdominal hysterectomy

British Journal of Anaesthesia

Volumn 81, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 731-736

  McConaghy, P M ^a   McSorley, P ^a   McCaughey, W ^a   Campbell, W I ^b  

^a CRAIGAVON AREA HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b ULSTER HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Pain, mechanism; Pain, postoperative; Pharmacology, dextromethorphan

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; DEXTROMETHORPHAN; MORPHINE;

ABDOMINAL HYSTERECTOMY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DROWSINESS; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; HEARTBURN; HOT FLUSH; HUMAN; HYPERALGESIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NAUSEA; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PATIENT CONTROLLED ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SITTING; TREMOR; VERTIGO; VOMITING;

EID: 0031771287     PISSN: 00070912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bja/81.5.731     Document Type: Article

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