Highlights in postoperative pain treatment

Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 533-545

  Leykin, Yigal ^a   Pellis, Tommaso ^b   Ambrosio, Claudia ^b  

^a S MARIA DEGLI ANGELI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b Pordenone Medical Center   (Italy)

Author keywords

Acute pain; Acute Pain Service; Multimodal; Opioids; Regional analgesia; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ALFENTANIL; ALKALOID DERIVATIVE; ALPHA 2 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; AMINOGLYCOSIDE; ANALGESIC AGENT; CLONIDINE; CODEINE; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2 INHIBITOR; DEXMETODOMIDINE; DEXTROMETHORPHAN; DIAMORPHINE; FENTANYL; HYDROCODONE; IBUPROFEN; KETAMINE; KETOROLAC; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; METHADONE; MORPHINE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OPIATE; OPIATE PEPTIDE; OXYCODONE; PARACETAMOL; PETHIDINE; SUFENTANIL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANALGESIA; BILIARY TRACT MUSCLE; BLEEDING; BRADYCARDIA; BRONCHOSPASM; CANCER PAIN; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONSTIPATION; COUGHING; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG ABSORPTION; DRUG DOSAGE FORM COMPARISON; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; DRUG ELIMINATION; DRUG FORMULATION; DRUG HALF LIFE; DRUG MECHANISM; EUPHORIA; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; HYPNOSIS; HYPOTENSION; HYPOTHERMIA; HYPOVOLEMIA; KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION; MIOSIS; MUSCLE HYPERTONIA; MUSCLE SPASM; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NAUSEA; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NEPHROTOXICITY; NERVE BLOCK; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRURITUS; RESPIRATION DEPRESSION; REVIEW; SEDATION; SEIZURE; SIDE EFFECT; SYSTEMIC DISEASE; TREATMENT INDICATION; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; URINE RETENTION; VASODILATATION; WALKING DIFFICULTY;

ANALGESICS; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CHRONIC DISEASE; DRUG ADMINISTRATION ROUTES; HUMANS; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE;

EID: 34248339640     PISSN: 14737175     EISSN: 17448360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/14737175.7.5.533     Document Type: Review

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