Balanced analgesia. What is it and what are its advantages in postoperative pain?

Drugs

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 793-797

  Kehlet, Henrik ^a   Werner, Mads ^a   Perkins, Frederick ^b  

^a HVIDOVRE HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA 2 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; ANALGESIC AGENT; BUPIVACAINE; CLONIDINE; COCODAMOL; FENTANYL; KETAMINE; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; MORPHINE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OPIATE; PARACETAMOL; PREDNISOLONE; SUFENTANIL;

BALANCED ANESTHESIA; BLADDER DISEASE; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG CHOICE; DRUG EFFICACY; EDITORIAL; EPIDURAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; INTRAARTICULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NAUSEA; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; SIDE EFFECT; TREATMENT PLANNING; VOMITING;

ANALGESICS; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; HUMANS; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE;

EID: 0032761539     PISSN: 00126667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/00003495-199958050-00002     Document Type: Editorial

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