Techniques to reduce pain associated with hair transplantation: Optimizing anesthesia and analgesia

American Journal of Clinical Dermatology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 9-15

  Nusbaum, Bernard P ^a,b  

^a Miami Transplant Institute   (United States)

^b Hair Transplant Institute of Miami   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANESTHETIC AGENT; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; BUPIVACAINE; DEXTROPROPOXYPHENE NAPSILATE; DIAZEPAM; FENTANYL; LIDOCAINE; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; LORAZEPAM; MIDAZOLAM; NARCOTIC AGENT; OXYCODONE; PARACETAMOL; PETHIDINE; ROFECOXIB; TRIAZOLAM;

AMNESIA; ANALGESIA; ANESTHESIA; ANXIETY; COMPUTER SYSTEM; CRYOTHERAPY; HAIR LOSS; HAIR TRANSPLANTATION; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; INJECTION; INJECTION PAIN; IONTOPHORESIS; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; NAUSEA; NERVE BLOCK; OPERATION DURATION; PAIN; PAIN THRESHOLD; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT MONITORING; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PREMEDICATION; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIDE EFFECT; STOMACH DISEASE; THROMBOCYTE ANOMALY; VIBRATION; VOMITING;

ANESTHESIA, LOCAL; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; HAIR; HUMANS; INJECTIONS; PAIN;

EID: 1542283645     PISSN: 11750561     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/00128071-200405010-00003     Document Type: Review

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