Randomized controlled trial to examine the influence of thoracic epidural analgesia on postoperative ileus after laparoscopic sigmoid resection

British Journal of Surgery

Volumn 86, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 1292-1295

  Neudecker, J ^a   Schwenk, W ^a   Junghans, T ^a   Pietsch, S ^a   Bohm B ^a   Muller J M ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUPIVACAINE; CISAPRIDE; MORPHINE; MORPHINE SULFATE; ROPIVACAINE; THIAMAZOLE; TRAMADOL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER DYSFUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DEFECATION; DISEASE DURATION; EPIDURAL CATHETER; EPIDURAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; FEEDING; FEMALE; HUMAN; ILEUS; INTRATHECAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MALE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NOCICEPTION; PATIENT CONTROLLED ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REST; SIGMOIDECTOMY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THORAX EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; VOMITING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALGESIA, EPIDURAL; COLON, SIGMOID; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SIGMOID DISEASES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0032869383     PISSN: 00071323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2168.1999.01242.x     Document Type: Article

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