Patient-controlled epidural analgesia after major urologic surgeries: A Comparison of tramadol with or without bupivacaine

Urologia Internationalis

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 168-175

  Aribogan, Anis ^a,c   Doruk, Nurcan ^b   Aridogan, Atilla ^a   Akin, Sule ^a   Balcioglu, Okan ^a  

^a CUKUROVA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b MERSIN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Bupivacaine; Patient controlled epidural analgesia; Tramadol

Indexed keywords

BUPIVACAINE; TRAMADOL;

ADULT; AGED; ANALGESIA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BRADYCARDIA; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ADMINISTRATION ROUTE; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG INFUSION; DRUG SAFETY; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; FEMALE; FISHER EXACT TEST; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INCIDENCE; KRUSKAL WALLIS TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; NAUSEA; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATIENT MONITORING; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; RESPIRATION DEPRESSION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEDATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL PATIENT; TIME; UROLOGIC SURGERY; VOMITING;

ANALGESIA, EPIDURAL; ANALGESIA, PATIENT-CONTROLLED; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; BUPIVACAINE; CYSTECTOMY; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PROSTATECTOMY; TRAMADOL;

EID: 0042172878     PISSN: 00421138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000071841     Document Type: Article

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