Fetal pain: A systematic multidisciplinary review of the evidence

JAMA

Volumn 294, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 947-954

  Lee, Susan J ^a   Ralston, Henry J Peter ^a   Drey, Eleanor A ^a   Partridge, John Colin ^a   Rosen, Mark A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPIATE AGONIST; OPIATE ANTAGONIST; ANALGESIC AGENT;

ANALGESIA; ANESTHESIA; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; AWARENESS; DYSTOCIA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FETUS ANESTHESIA; FETUS MOVEMENT; FETUS SURGERY; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDLINE; NOCICEPTION; NOCICEPTIVE STIMULATION; OBSTETRIC ANALGESIA; PAIN THRESHOLD; PLACENTAL TRANSFER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; THERAPEUTIC ABORTION; WITHDRAWAL REFLEX; DRUG EFFECT; EMPIRICAL APPROACH; FEMALE; FETAL THERAPY; FETUS; GENETICS AND REPRODUCTION; INDUCED ABORTION; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; PAIN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; REFLEX;

EMPIRICAL APPROACH; GENETICS AND REPRODUCTION;

ABORTION, INDUCED; ANALGESIA; ANALGESICS; ANESTHESIA; FEMALE; FETAL THERAPIES; FETUS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; PAIN; PERCEPTION; PREGNANCY; REFLEX; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE;

EID: 23944502335     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.294.8.947     Document Type: Review

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