Pain therapy following joint replacement. A randomized study of patient-controlled analgesia versus conventional pain therapy

Archives of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery

Volumn 119, Issue 5-6, 1999, Pages 267-270

  Forst, J ^a   Wolff, S ^a   Thamm, P ^a   Forst, R ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; PIRITRAMIDE; TRAMADOL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HIP DISEASE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; KNEE DISEASE; MALE; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; PATIENT CONTROLLED ANALGESIA; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TIME; TOTAL HIP PROSTHESIS; TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; AGED; ANALGESIA, PATIENT-CONTROLLED; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, HIP; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAMUSCULAR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PIRINITRAMIDE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRAMADOL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0032818281     PISSN: 09368051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004020050407     Document Type: Article

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