Does dexamethasone with preemptive analgesia improve pediatric tonsillectomy pain?

Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 126, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 307-315

  Giannoni, Carla ^a,c   White, Sno ^b   Enneking, F Kayser ^b  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c MC 3 2600   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLONIDINE; DEXAMETHASONE; ROPIVACAINE; AMIDE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALE; NAUSEA; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TONSIL; TONSILLECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRISMUS; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; VOMITING; ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DRUG COMBINATION; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PREMEDICATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

ADOLESCENT; AMIDES; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLONIDINE; DEXAMETHASONE; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PREANESTHETIC MEDICATION; QUALITY OF LIFE; TONSILLECTOMY;

EID: 0036515410     PISSN: 01945998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mhn.2002.122700     Document Type: Article

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