Intrathecal Analgesia

Medical Clinics of North America

Volumn 91, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 251-270

  Cohen, Steven P ^a,b   Dragovich, Anthony ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACLOFEN; BUPIVACAINE; CLONIDINE; FENTANYL; HYDROMORPHONE; KETAMINE; LIDOCAINE; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; MIDAZOLAM; MORPHINE; OMEGA CONOTOXIN MVIIA; OPIATE; PETHIDINE; SUFENTANIL;

ADD ON THERAPY; AMENORRHEA; ANALGESIA; ANOREXIA; ASTHMA; BLADDER DYSFUNCTION; CANCER PAIN; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CONFUSION; CONSTIPATION; CONVULSION; DIZZINESS; DROWSINESS; DRUG MEGADOSE; FATIGUE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GRANULOMA; HUMAN; HYPOTHYROIDISM; IMPOTENCE; LEG EDEMA; LIBIDO; LOW DRUG DOSE; MONOTHERAPY; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NONHUMAN; PARESTHESIA; PERIPHERAL EDEMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; PUMP; REVIEW; SEDATION; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SIDE EFFECT; SOMNOLENCE; SWEATING; URINE RETENTION; WEAKNESS; XEROSTOMIA;

ANALGESICS, OPIOID; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; GABA AGONISTS; HUMANS; INFUSION PUMPS, IMPLANTABLE; INJECTIONS, SPINAL; PAIN; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; RECEPTORS, OPIOID; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33847205764     PISSN: 00257125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mcna.2006.10.001     Document Type: Review

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