Postoperative Pain Control in Children: A Guide to Drug Choice

Pediatric Drugs

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 751-762

  Kokinsky, Eva ^a   Thornberg, Eva ^b  

^a QUEEN SILVIA CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b BORÅS HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANESTHETIC AGENT; ANTIEMETIC AGENT; ANTIPYRETIC ANALGESIC AGENT; BUPIVACAINE; CLONIDINE; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2 INHIBITOR; DEXAMETHASONE; DICLOFENAC; KETOPROFEN; KETOROLAC; LIDOCAINE; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; MEPIVACAINE; MORPHINE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OPIATE; PARACETAMOL; PHENACETIN; ROPIVACAINE; TETRACAINE; TRAMADOL;

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ANALGESIA; ANALGESIC ACTIVITY; APPENDECTOMY; ASTHMA; BODY TEMPERATURE; BRONCHOSPASM; CIRCUMCISION; DENTAL SURGERY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG BIOAVAILABILITY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG HALF LIFE; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; EDUCATION; EYE SURGERY; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; NAUSEA; NEPHROTOXICITY; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PLASTIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE NAUSEA; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE VOMITING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; REVIEW; SEDATION; STRABISMUS SURGERY; THORAX SURGERY; TITRIMETRY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINE RETENTION; VOMITING;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ADMINISTRATION, RECTAL; ANALGESICS; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; CHILD; HUMANS; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; SWEDEN;

EID: 0344011574     PISSN: 11745878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/00148581-200305110-00004     Document Type: Review

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