Post-operative epidural versus intravenous patient-controlled analgesia

Minerva Anestesiologica

Volumn 69, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 443-446

  Alon, E ^a,b   Jaquenod, M ^a   Schaeppi, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Analgesia, epidural, methods; Analgesia, epidural, utilization; Pain, postoperative, prevention and control

Indexed keywords

LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT; OPIATE;

HUMAN; PATIENT CONTROLLED ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; REVIEW; SIDE EFFECT; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

ANALGESIA, EPIDURAL; ANALGESIA, PATIENT-CONTROLLED; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; CLINICAL TRIALS; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE;

EID: 0141836116     PISSN: 03759393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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