The addition of a small-dose ketamine infusion to tramadol for postoperative analgesia: A double-blinded, placebo-controlled, randomized trial after abdominal surgery

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 104, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 912-917

  Webb, Ashley R ^a   Skinner, Bradley S ^a   Leong, Samuel ^a   Kolawole, Helen ^a   Crofts, Tyron ^a   Taverner, Murray ^a   Burn, Sara J ^a  

^a FRANKSTON HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KETAMINE; MORPHINE; PLACEBO; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TRAMADOL;

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ADD ON THERAPY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFUSION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FEMALE; HALLUCINATION; HUMAN; LAPAROTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT CONTROLLED ANALGESIA; PEROPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMOTOR DISORDER; RANDOMIZATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SLEEP DISORDER; VIVID DREAM;

ABDOMEN; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALGESIA, PATIENT-CONTROLLED; ANALGESICS; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; HALLUCINATIONS; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; KETAMINE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORPHINE; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SLEEP; TIME FACTORS; TRAMADOL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34047274267     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ane.0000256961.01813.da     Document Type: Article

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