Nurse-administered subcutaneous morphine is a satisfactory alternative to intravenous patient-controlled analgesia morphine after cardiac surgery

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 11-15

  Munro, Andrew J ^a   Long, Geoffrey T ^a   Sleigh, James W ^a  

^a WAIKATO HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETOMIDATE; FENTANYL; MIDAZOLAM; MORPHINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAUSEA; NURSE; PATIENT CONTROLLED ANALGESIA; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSIOTHERAPY; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

AGED; ANALGESIA, PATIENT-CONTROLLED; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; INJECTIONS, SUBCUTANEOUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORPHINE; NURSING CARE; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THORACIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 0031808480     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000539-199807000-00004     Document Type: Article

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