Efficacy and technical complications of long-term continuous intraspinal infusions of opioid and/or bupivacaine in refractory nonmalignant pain: A comparison between the epidural and the intrathecal approach with externalized or implanted catheters and infusion pumps

Clinical Journal of Pain

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 4-16

  Dahm, Peter ^a   Nitescu, Petre ^a   Appelgren, Lennart ^a   Curelaru, Ioan ^a  

^a SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Complications; Epidural intrathecal; Implanted systems; Long term spinal catheterization; Nonmalignant pain; Pain treatment; Spinal local anesthetic; Spinal opioid

Indexed keywords

BUPIVACAINE; OPIATE;

CATHETER INFECTION; CATHETERIZATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG MIXTURE; EPIDURAL ABSCESS; EPIDURAL CATHETER; EPIDURAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; INFUSION PUMP; INTRATHECAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENINGITIS; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPINAL ANESTHESIA; TREATMENT FAILURE;

ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; ANIMALS; BUPIVACAINE; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; HUMANS; INFUSION PUMPS; INJECTIONS, EPIDURAL; INJECTIONS, SPINAL; NARCOTICS; PAIN, INTRACTABLE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0031943629     PISSN: 07498047     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00002508-199803000-00003     Document Type: Review

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