Update for nurse anesthetists: Itching, the "little" big problem as an orphan symptom

AANA Journal

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 379-384

  Taomey, Matthew ^a   Biddle, Chuck ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Complications; Neuraxial opiates; Pruritis

Indexed keywords

DICLOFENAC; DROPERIDOL; HISTAMINE H1 RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; HISTAMINE H2 RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; MORPHINE; NALBUPHINE; NALOXONE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; ONDANSETRON; OPIATE ANTAGONIST; OPIATE DERIVATIVE; PROPOFOL; SEROTONIN 3 ANTAGONIST; SUFENTANIL; TENOXICAM;

ANESTHESIST; CLINICAL TRIAL; DISTRESS SYNDROME; DYSPHORIA; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; HYPNOSIS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NURSE ANESTHETIST; PAIN; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRURITUS; REVIEW; SEDATION; SIDE EFFECT; SOMNOLENCE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; ANESTHESIA; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; COMORBIDITY; CYTOKINES; DROPERIDOL; HISTAMINE; HISTAMINE H1 ANTAGONISTS; HUMANS; HYPNOTICS AND SEDATIVES; NARCOTIC ANTAGONISTS; NEUROPEPTIDES; NURSE ANESTHETISTS; PROPOFOL; PROSTAGLANDINS; PRURITUS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK FACTORS; SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN ANTAGONISTS;

EID: 33749598694     PISSN: 00946354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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