Intrathecal opioids for combined spinal-epidural analgesia during labour

CNS Drugs

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 889-904

  DeBalli, Peter ^a   Breen, Terrance W ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; ALFENTANIL; BUPIVACAINE; CLONIDINE; DIAMORPHINE; DIPHENHYDRAMINE; FENTANYL; GLUCOSE; LEVOBUPIVACAINE; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; MORPHINE; NALBUPHINE; NALMEFENE; NALOXONE; NEOSTIGMINE; ONDANSETRON; OPIATE; OPIATE AGONIST; OPIATE ANTAGONIST; OPIATE RECEPTOR; PETHIDINE; PROPOFOL; ROPIVACAINE; SUFENTANIL;

ANALGESIC ACTIVITY; BRADYCARDIA; CARDIOTOXICITY; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CESAREAN SECTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG ABSORPTION; DRUG BIOAVAILABILITY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG FORMULATION; DRUG PROTEIN BINDING; DRUG RECEPTOR BINDING; DRUG SOLUBILITY; DRUG TRANSPORT; DURA MATER; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; FETUS DISEASE; FETUS HEART RATE; HEADACHE; HERPES SIMPLEX; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS; HUMAN; HYDROPHILICITY; LABOR PAIN; LIPOPHILICITY; NAUSEA; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; OBSTETRIC ANALGESIA; OPTIMAL DRUG DOSE; POSTDURAL PUNCTURE HEADACHE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; PUERPERIUM; RESPIRATION DEPRESSION; REVIEW; SHEEP; SIDE EFFECT; SPINAL ANESTHESIA; SPINAL CORD; TECHNIQUE; VIRUS REACTIVATION; VOMITING;

ANALGESICS, OPIOID; ANESTHESIA, EPIDURAL; ANESTHESIA, OBSTETRICAL; ANESTHESIA, SPINAL; CLINICAL TRIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, SPINAL; LABOR, OBSTETRIC; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME;

EID: 0141528683     PISSN: 11727047     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/00023210-200317120-00003     Document Type: Review

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