Improvement of Pain Treatment after Major Abdominal Surgery by Intravenous S(+)-Ketamine

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 98, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1413-1418

  Argiriadou, Helena ^a   Himmelseher, Sabine ^b   Papagiannopoulou, Pinelopi ^c   Georgiou, Mary ^c   Kanakoudis, Fotios ^c   Giala, Maria ^a   Kochs, Eberhard ^b  

^a AHEPA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c Institute of Pathology   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANESTHETIC AGENT; DEXTROPROPOXYPHENE; DICLOFENAC; KETAMINE; PLACEBO; ROPIVACAINE;

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ADD ON THERAPY; ADULT; AGED; ANALGESIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; FEMALE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; SIDE EFFECT;

EID: 1942436955     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ANE.0000111204.31815.2D     Document Type: Article

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