The safety and efficacy of intrathecal opioid analgesia for acute postoperative pain: Seven years' experience with 5969 surgical patients at Indiana University Hospital

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 599-604

  Gwirtz, Kenneth H ^a,b   Young, Jerry V ^a   Byers, Robert S ^a   Alley, Christopher ^a   Levin, Katherine ^a   Walker, Scott G ^a   Stoelting, Robert K ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Fesler Hall 204 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NALOXONE;

ARTICLE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INTRATHECAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CONTROLLED ANALGESIA; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; PUNCTURE; RESPIRATION DEPRESSION;

EID: 0033050221     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000539-199903000-00026     Document Type: Article

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