What is the best way to provide postoperative pain therapy after caesarean section?

Current Opinion in Anaesthesiology

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 267-270

  Van De Velde, Marc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; BUPIVACAINE; DIAMORPHINE; DICLOFENAC; FENTANYL; HYDROCODONE; INDOMETACIN; KETAMINE; LIDOCAINE; MORPHINE; NAPROXEN; NEOSTIGMINE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OPIATE; PARACETAMOL; PETHIDINE; PLACEBO; PROPOFOL; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SUFENTANIL; THIOPENTAL; TRAMADOL;

ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ARTICLE; CESAREAN SECTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG HALF LIFE; DRUG POTENCY; DRUG UPTAKE; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; NAUSEA; PATIENT CONTROLLED ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; SEDATION; SPINAL ANESTHESIA; VOMITING;

EID: 0034129889     PISSN: 09527907     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001503-200006000-00005     Document Type: Article

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