Small-dose ketamine infusion improves postoperative analgesia and rehabilitation after total knee arthroplasty

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 100, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 475-480

  Adam, Frédéric ^b   Chauvin, Marcel ^a   Du Manoir, Bertrand ^b   Langlois, Mathieu ^b   Sessler, Daniel I ^b   Fletcher, Dominique ^b  

^a ASSISTANCE PUBLIQUE HÔPITAUX DE PARIS   (France)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATRACURIUM; DEXTROPROPOXYPHENE PLUS PARACETAMOL; HYDROXYZINE; KETAMINE; MIDAZOLAM; MORPHINE; NAPROXEN; ROPIVACAINE; SUFENTANIL; THIOPENTAL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIPLOPIA; FEMALE; FEMORAL NERVE; HALLUCINATION; HUMAN; KNEE FUNCTION; LOW DRUG DOSE; MALE; MOBILIZATION; NAUSEA; NERVE BLOCK; NIGHTMARE; PAIN ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SEDATION; TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT; VOMITING;

AGED; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; ANESTHETICS, DISSOCIATIVE; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID ANTAGONISTS; FEMALE; FEMORAL NERVE; HUMANS; KETAMINE; KNEE; MALE; MORPHINE; NERVE BLOCK; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE NAUSEA AND VOMITING; REHABILITATION;

EID: 12844249394     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ANE.0000142117.82241.DC     Document Type: Article

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