Patient controlled iv analgesia is an acceptable pain management strategy in morbidly obese patients undergoing gastric bypass surgery. A restrospective comparison with epidural analgesia

Canadian Journal of Anesthesia

Volumn 50, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 672-678

  Charghi, Roshanak ^a   Backman, Steven ^a   Christou, Nicolas ^a   Rouah, Fabrice ^b   Schricker, Thomas ^a  

^a ROYAL VICTORIA HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BUPIVACAINE; CEFAZOLIN; FENTANYL; MORPHINE; NALOXONE; NAPROXEN; VANCOMYCIN; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; DRUG SAFETY; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; FEMALE; FLATULENCE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT FUNCTION; GENDER; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INCIDENCE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOBILIZATION; MORBID OBESITY; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CONTROLLED ANALGESIA; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSTOPERATIVE NAUSEA AND VOMITING; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; REST; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; STOMACH BYPASS; TREATMENT PLANNING; WOUND INFECTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LENGTH OF STAY; MIDDLE AGED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; ANALGESIA, EPIDURAL; ANALGESIA, PATIENT-CONTROLLED; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; FEMALE; GASTRIC BYPASS; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORPHINE; OBESITY, MORBID; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0142242295     PISSN: 0832610X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03018709     Document Type: Article

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