A single small dose of postoperative ketamine provides rapid and sustained improvement in morphine analgesia in the presence of morphine-resistant pain

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 96, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 789-795

  Weinbroum, Avi A ^a,b  

^a TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KETAMINE; MORPHINE;

ADULT; AGED; ANALGESIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BOLUS INJECTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HALLUCINATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAUSEA; OXYGEN SATURATION; PAIN ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; UNPLEASANT DREAM; VERTIGO; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; VOMITING; WAKEFULNESS; WELLBEING;

EID: 0037372677     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ANE.0000048088.17761.B4     Document Type: Article

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