Epidural analgesia - Experience of 5628 patients in a large teaching hospital derived through audit

Acute Pain

Volumn 4, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 89-97

  Ballantyne, Jane C ^a   McKenna, Jennifer M ^a   Ryder, Elizabeth ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Epidural analgesia; Postoperative pain

Indexed keywords

BUPIVACAINE; DIPHENHYDRAMINE; DROPERIDOL; FENTANYL; HYDROMORPHONE; KETOROLAC; MORPHINE; NALBUPHINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; EPIDURAL CATHETER; FEVER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL AUDIT; NAUSEA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; RESPIRATION DEPRESSION; SEDATION; STANDARD; TEACHING HOSPITAL; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL; VERTIGO;

EID: 0037357465     PISSN: 13660071     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1366-0071(03)00002-0     Document Type: Article

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