Treatment of pain via a cervical epidural catheter;Smertebehandling via cervikalt epiduralkateter

Ugeskrift for Laeger

Volumn 160, Issue 26, 1998, Pages 3885-3888

  Bredahl, Claus ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT;

BREATHING; CATHETERIZATION; DRUG CONTRAINDICATION; DRUG EFFECT; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; REVIEW; VERTEBRA;

ANALGESIA, EPIDURAL; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; ANESTHESIA, EPIDURAL; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; CATHETERIZATION; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; RESPIRATION; THORACIC VERTEBRAE;

EID: 0032557751     PISSN: 00415782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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