Evidence for the optimal management of acute and chronic phantom pain: A systematic review

Clinical Journal of Pain

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 84-92

  Halbert, Julie ^a   Crotty, Maria ^a   Cameron, Ian D ^a  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Epidural anesthesia; Nerve blocks; Phantom limb pain

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANESTHETIC AGENT; BUPIVACAINE; CALCITONIN; CHLORPROMAZINE; CLONIDINE; DIAMORPHINE; KETAMINE; MORPHINE; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OPIATE; PARACETAMOL; PETHIDINE; SALCATONIN;

ADULT; AGED; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; DROWSINESS; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; FECES INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; LEG AMPUTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGITIS; NERVE BLOCK; PHANTOM PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; REVIEW; SIDE EFFECT; SKIN ABSCESS; TRANSCUTANEOUS NERVE STIMULATION; TREATMENT INDICATION; URINE RETENTION;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; AMPUTATION; ANALGESIA, EPIDURAL; CHRONIC DISEASE; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE BLOCK; PHANTOM LIMB; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0036193598     PISSN: 07498047     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00002508-200203000-00003     Document Type: Review

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