Painful dilemmas: An evidence-based look at challenging clinical scenarios

Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 367-392

  Linklater, Derek R ^a,b   Pemberton, Laurie ^b   Taylor, Steve ^c   Zeger, Wesley ^c,d  

^a TEXAS A M COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CARL R DARNALL ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANESTHETIC AGENT; ANTIEMETIC AGENT; CHLORPROMAZINE; CYCLOBENZAPRINE; CYCLOPLEGIC AGENT; DIHYDROERGOTAMINE; DIMENHYDRINATE; DOPAMINE RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; ERGOT ALKALOID; ERGOTAMINE; ERGOTAMINE TARTRATE; HYDROXYZINE; IBUPROFEN; IMIPRAMINE; KETOROLAC; METOCLOPRAMIDE; MORPHINE; MUSCLE RELAXANT AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OPIATE; OXYCODONE; PARACETAMOL; PETHIDINE; PHENOTHIAZINE; PROCHLORPERAZINE; PROMETHAZINE; SUMATRIPTAN; UNINDEXED DRUG; VALPROIC ACID;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADDICTION; ADJUVANT THERAPY; BACKACHE; BILIARY COLIC; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONSTIPATION; CORNEA INJURY; CORNEAL EPITHELIUM TOXICITY; DEPRESSION; DISEQUILIBRIUM; DROWSINESS; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; EXPECTATION; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INCIDENCE; KIDNEY COLIC; KIDNEY FAILURE; MIGRAINE; NAUSEA; NEUROTOXICITY; OXYGEN THERAPY; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEDATION; SEIZURE; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; SIDE EFFECT;

EID: 17044428943     PISSN: 07338627     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.emc.2004.12.007     Document Type: Review

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