Analgesic and cognitive effects of intravenous ketamine-alfentanil combinations versus either drug alone after intradermal capsaicin in normal subjects

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 86, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1250-1256

  Sethna, Navil F ^a,b   Liu, Maywin ^a,c   Gracely, Richard ^a   Bennett, Gary J ^a   Max, Mitchell B ^a,d  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DENTAL AND CRANIOFACIAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALFENTANIL; CAPSAICIN; KETAMINE;

ADULT; ALLODYNIA; ANALGESIA; ANTINOCICEPTION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG RECEPTOR BINDING; DRUG TOLERANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPERALGESIA; INTRADERMAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; NORMAL HUMAN; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN;

ADULT; ALFENTANIL; ANALGESICS; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; ANESTHETICS, DISSOCIATIVE; CAPSAICIN; COGNITION; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; DRUG COMBINATIONS; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID ANTAGONISTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERALGESIA; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; INJECTIONS, INTRADERMAL; IRRITANTS; KETAMINE; MALE; PAIN; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0031811083     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000539-199806000-00022     Document Type: Article

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