Low-dose intravenous ketamine potentiates epidural analgesia after thoracotomy

Anesthesiology

Volumn 105, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 111-119

  Suzuki, Manzo ^a   Haraguti, Syuji ^a   Sugimoto, Kikuzo ^a,b   Kikutani, Takehiko ^a   Shimada, Yoichi ^a   Sakamoto, Atsuhiro ^c  

^a NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL MUSASHI KOSUGI HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b Higashitotuka Memorial Hospital   (Japan)

^c NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KETAMINE; MORPHINE; PLACEBO; ROPIVACAINE; ANALGESIC AGENT;

ABNORMAL SENSATION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DROWSINESS; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG POTENTIATION; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; MALE; NAUSEA; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL WOUND; THORACOTOMY; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFECT; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATHOLOGY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALGESIA, EPIDURAL; ANALGESICS; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; DRUG SYNERGISM; FEMALE; HUMANS; KETAMINE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; THORACOTOMY;

EID: 33746904334     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: 15281175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000542-200607000-00020     Document Type: Article

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