Women Experience More Pain and Require More Morphine Than Men to Achieve a Similar Degree of Analgesia

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 97, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1464-1468

  Cepeda, M Soledad ^a   Carr, Daniel B ^b  

^a Facultad de Medicina   (Colombia)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MORPHINE; OPIATE;

ADULT; AGED; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG USE; FEMALE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; LIKERT SCALE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NOCICEPTION; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; SEX DIFFERENCE;

EID: 0042455233     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ANE.0000080153.36643.83     Document Type: Article

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