Strategies for effective postoperative pain management

Minerva Anestesiologica

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 145-150

  Diaz, G ^a   Flood, P ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Pain; Pain, postoperative, diagnosis; Pain, postoperative, therapy

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ALFENTANIL; ANALGESIC AGENT; BUPRENORPHINE; BUTYROPHENONE DERIVATIVE; CODEINE; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2 INHIBITOR; DIAMORPHINE; ETORPHINE; FENTANYL; HYDROMORPHONE; INDOMETACIN; KETOROLAC; LEVORPHANOL; METHADONE; MORPHINE; MORPHINONE; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT; NICOTINE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OPIATE AGONIST; PAPAVERINE; PARACETAMOL; PENTAZOCINE; PETHIDINE; PIROXICAM; PLACEBO; SUFENTANIL; THEBAINE; UNINDEXED DRUG;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ANALGESIA; ANALGESIC ACTIVITY; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; APLASTIC ANEMIA; APNEA; ARTICLE; ASEPTIC MENINGITIS; BLOOD DYSCRASIA; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONSTIPATION; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM HEMORRHAGE; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM PERFORATION; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM ULCER; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG HALF LIFE; DRUG POTENTIATION; ERYTHEMA MULTIFORME; GASTROINTESTINAL TOXICITY; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE; HUMAN; KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER NECROSIS; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NEPHROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PATIENT SAFETY; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRURITUS; RESPIRATION DEPRESSION; SEDATION; SIDE EFFECT; SKIN DISEASE; STOMACH EMPTYING; STOMACH EROSION; STOMACH IRRITATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THROMBOCYTE AGGREGATION INHIBITION; THROMBOSIS; URINE RETENTION; URTICARIA;

ANALGESICS, OPIOID; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; HUMANS; NICOTINE; NICOTINIC AGONISTS; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE;

EID: 33644944520     PISSN: 03759393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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