Editorial II: Gabapentin: A new drug for postoperative pain?

British Journal of Anaesthesia

Volumn 96, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 152-155

  Rowbotham, D J ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2 INHIBITOR; GABAPENTIN; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OPIATE; PREGABALIN; ROFECOXIB; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; AMINE; ANALGESIC AGENT; CYCLOHEXANECARBOXYLIC ACID DERIVATIVE;

ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ANXIETY; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTINUOUS EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; DIZZINESS; DROWSINESS; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG RECEPTOR BINDING; DRUG TOLERANCE; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NONHUMAN; PATIENT CONTROLLED ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; RESPIRATION DEPRESSION; SOMNOLENCE; STOMACH DISEASE; THROMBOCYTE DYSFUNCTION; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; NOTE;

AMINES; ANALGESIA, EPIDURAL; ANALGESICS; CYCLOHEXANECARBOXYLIC ACIDS; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; HUMANS; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE;

EID: 31744437904     PISSN: 00070912     EISSN: 14716771     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bja/aei318     Document Type: Editorial

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