Pharmacotherapeutic Management of Pain with a Focus Directed at the Geriatric Patient

Rheumatic Disease Clinics of North America

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-31

  Barkin, Robert L ^a,b   Barkin, Stacy J ^c   Barkin, Diana S ^d  

^a RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b North Shore Cardiologists   (United States)

^c AmeriPsych/Rescare Inc   (United States)

^d Academic Pharmaceutical Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; BUPRENORPHINE; BUTORPHANOL; CELECOXIB; CODEINE; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2; DEXTROMETHORPHAN; DEXTROPROPOXYPHENE; DIHYDROERGOTAMINE; ETORICOXIB; FENTANYL; HYDROCODONE; HYDROMORPHONE; LITHIUM; LUMIRACOXIB; MORPHINE; NALBUPHINE; NALOXONE; NEFAZODONE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OPIATE; OXYCODONE; PARACETAMOL; PENTAZOCINE; PETHIDINE; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; TRAMADOL; TRIPTAN DERIVATIVE; TRYPTOPHAN; UNINDEXED DRUG;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ACUTE KIDNEY TUBULE NECROSIS; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; ALCOHOLISM; ANOREXIA; ANXIETY DISORDER; BLEEDING DISORDER; BRADYCARDIA; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONFUSION; CONSTIPATION; DELIRIUM TREMENS; DEPERSONALIZATION; DEPRESSION; DIAPHORESIS; DIARRHEA; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM PERFORATION; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM ULCER; DISORIENTATION; DIZZINESS; DROWSINESS; DRUG DEPENDENCE; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; DYSPEPSIA; DYSPHORIA; EDEMA; FATIGUE; FEVER; FIBROMYALGIA; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GASTROINTESTINAL IRRITATION; GERIATRIC PATIENT; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION; HEADACHE; HEART FAILURE; HEART INFARCTION; HISTAMINE RELEASE; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPERKALEMIA; HYPERTENSION; HYPOTENSION; INSOMNIA; INTERSTITIAL NEPHRITIS; JAUNDICE; KIDNEY BLOOD FLOW; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION; KIDNEY PAPILLA NECROSIS; KYPHOSCOLIOSIS; LEG EDEMA; LETHARGY; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; LIVER TOXICITY; LOW BACK PAIN; LUNG DISEASE; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; MIOSIS; MUSCLE RIGIDITY; MUSCULOSKELETAL PAIN; MYOCLONUS; NAUSEA; NEPHROTIC SYNDROME; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NIGHTMARE; OBSTRUCTIVE JAUNDICE; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE HYPERTROPHY; PRURITUS; REVIEW; SEDATION; SEIZURE; SEROTONIN SYNDROME; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SIDE EFFECT; STROKE; THROMBOCYTE ANOMALY; TINNITUS; TREMOR; URETHRA DISEASE; URINE RETENTION; VASODILATATION; VERTIGO; VISUAL HALLUCINATION; VOMITING; XEROSTOMIA;

AGED; CHRONIC DISEASE; CREATINE; DIABETIC NEUROPATHIES; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; GERIATRICS; HUMANS; PAIN; PHARMACOKINETICS;

EID: 33947175225     PISSN: 0889857X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rdc.2006.12.001     Document Type: Review

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