Postoperative analgesia requirements at home after inguinal hernia repair: Effects of wound infiltration on postoperative pain

Anaesthesia

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 325-331

  Ausems, M E ^a   Hulsewe K W ^a   Hooymans, P M ^a   Hoofwijk, A G ^a  

^a Sittard Geleen Heerlen   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATRACURIUM; DICLOFENAC; FENTANYL; LEVOBUPIVACAINE; MEPIVACAINE; PARACETAMOL; PLACEBO; PROPOFOL; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TRAMADOL;

ADULT; AGED; ANESTHESIA COMPLICATION; ANESTHESIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; ARTICLE; BUTTOCK; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE TIME EFFECT RELATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; DRUG INDUCED HEADACHE; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEMATOMA; HERNIORRHAPHY; HOME CARE; HUMAN; INFECTION; INGUINAL HERNIA; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; LOW BACK PAIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPTIMAL DRUG DOSE; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PARESTHESIA; POSTOPERATIVE ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE NAUSEA; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SORE THROAT; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; WOUND HEALING IMPAIRMENT;

AGED; AMBULATORY SURGICAL PROCEDURES; ANALGESIA, PATIENT-CONTROLLED; ANALGESICS; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; BUPIVACAINE; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; FEMALE; HERNIA, INGUINAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 33947700343     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: 13652044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.2007.04991.x     Document Type: Article

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