Use of neostigmine in the management of acute postoperative pain and labour pain: A review

CNS Drugs

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 821-839

  Habib, Ashraf S ^a   Gan, Tong J ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUPIVACAINE; CLONIDINE; DEXAMETHASONE; DROPERIDOL; FENTANYL; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; KETAMINE; LIDOCAINE; METOCLOPRAMIDE; MORPHINE; NEOSTIGMINE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OPIATE; PROPOFOL; SCOPOLAMINE; SUFENTANIL; TENOXICAM;

AGITATION; ANALGESIA; ANXIETY; BRACHIAL PLEXUS ANESTHESIA; BRADYCARDIA; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIZZINESS; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG POTENTIATION; FECES INCONTINENCE; HALLUCINATION; HUMAN; HYPERSALIVATION; HYPERTENSION; HYPOTENSION; LABOR PAIN; LIMB WEAKNESS; MYDRIASIS; NAUSEA; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NONHUMAN; NYSTAGMUS; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; RESTLESSNESS; REVIEW; SEDATION; SHIVERING; SIDE EFFECT; SWEATING; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TACHYCARDIA; VOMITING;

ANESTHESIA, CONDUCTION; ANESTHESIA, EPIDURAL; ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; ANESTHESIA, INTRAVENOUS; ANESTHESIA, SPINAL; ANIMALS; CHILD; CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITORS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRA-ARTICULAR; INJECTIONS, SPINAL; LABOR PAIN; NEOSTIGMINE; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PREGNANCY;

EID: 33749234737     PISSN: 11727047     EISSN: 11727047     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/00023210-200620100-00004     Document Type: Review

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