AANA Journal course: Update for nurse anesthetists - The long-term use of opiates for pain control: Laputa revisited?

AANA Journal

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 62-69

  Biddle, Chuck ^a,b  

^a Virginia Commonwealth University ^*

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Analgesia; Chronic pain; Noncancer pain; Opiates; Opioid analgesia

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; BUTORPHANOL TARTRATE; CARBAMAZEPINE; CODEINE; FENTANYL; FENTANYL CITRATE; FLECAINIDE; GABAPENTIN; HYDROCODONE; HYDROCODONE BITARTRATE PLUS IBUPROFEN; HYDROCODONE BITARTRATE PLUS PARACETAMOL; HYDROMORPHONE; LEVORPHANOL; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; METHADONE; MEXILETINE; MORPHINE SULFATE; NALOXONE; NORCO; OPIATE; OXYCODONE; PENTAZOCINE; PERCOCET; PERCODAN; PETHIDINE; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; TYLOX; UNINDEXED DRUG; VALPROATE SEMISODIUM; ZYDONE;

ANALGESIA; ANOREXIA; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONSTIPATION; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG FORMULATION; DRUG SCREENING; DRUG TOLERANCE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HUMAN; IRRITABILITY; LONG TERM CARE; LOZENGE; MOOD DISORDER; MYOCLONUS; OPIATE ADDICTION; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; RESPIRATION DEPRESSION; REVIEW; SIDE EFFECT; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOMNOLENCE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TREATMENT FAILURE;

ANALGESICS, OPIOID; CHRONIC DISEASE; DRUG MONITORING; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; OPIOID-RELATED DISORDERS; PAIN; PATIENT CARE PLANNING;

EID: 13444263246     PISSN: 00946354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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