Epidural analgesia with local anesthetics after abdominal surgery: Earlier motor recovery with 0.2% Ropivacaine than 0.175% Bupivacaine

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 128-133

  Brodner, Gerhard ^a   Mertes, Norbert ^a   Van Aken, Hugo ^a   Pogatzki, Esther ^a   Buerkle, Hartmut ^a   Marcus, Marco A ^a   Mollhoff, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUPIVACAINE; ROPIVACAINE; SUFENTANIL;

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DEMOGRAPHY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG INFUSION; DRUG SAFETY; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; EPIDURAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; FATIGUE; HUMAN; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; PAIN ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; SEX DIFFERENCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ABDOMEN; ADJUVANTS, ANESTHESIA; ADULT; AGED; AMIDES; ANALGESIA, EPIDURAL; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; BUPIVACAINE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUFENTANIL;

EID: 0032901911     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000539-199901000-00024     Document Type: Article

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