Ondansetron is effective to treat spinal or epidural morphine-induced pruritus

Anesthesiology

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 432-436

  Borgeat, Alain ^a,b   Stirnemann, Hans Ruedi ^a  

^a ORTHOPEDIC UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BALGRIST   (Switzerland)

^b BALGRIST UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Epidural anesthesia; Spinal anesthesia

Indexed keywords

MORPHINE; ONDANSETRON; PARACETAMOL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFICACY; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SEDATION; SPINAL ANESTHESIA;

ANALGESICS, OPIOID; ANTIPRURITICS; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; INJECTIONS, EPIDURAL; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; INJECTIONS, SPINAL; MORPHINE; ONDANSETRON; PRURITUS;

EID: 0032935543     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000542-199902000-00017     Document Type: Article

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