Postoperative pain management and patient outcome: Time to return to work!

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 104, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 487-489

  White, Paul F ^a   Kehlet, Henrik ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIEMETIC AGENT; DROPERIDOL; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; ONDANSETRON; OPIATE;

ABDOMINAL HYSTERECTOMY; ANEURYSM SURGERY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; DIETARY INTAKE; EDITORIAL; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FLUID THERAPY; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; PATIENT CONTROLLED ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE NAUSEA AND VOMITING; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT;

ANALGESIA; CLINICAL TRIALS; EMPLOYMENT; HUMANS; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RESEARCH DESIGN; WORK;

EID: 33847216532     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ane.0000258221.89383.61     Document Type: Editorial

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