Tolerance and aging: Optimizing analgesia in pain management

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 100, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1731-1732

  Agin, Carole W ^a   Glass, Peter S A ^a,b  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; OPIATE; PROTEIN KINASE;

AGING; ANALGESIA; CHRONIC PAIN; DRUG TOLERANCE; ECONOMIC ASPECT; EDITORIAL; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; OPIATE ADDICTION; PAIN CLINIC; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

EID: 19044397239     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ANE.0000152203.17541.16     Document Type: Editorial

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