Epidural ropivacaine infusion for the treatment of pain following axillary muscle-sparing thoracotomy: A dose-evaluation study

Journal of Anesthesia

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 320-324

  Sakai, Tetsuya ^a   Tomiyasu, Shiro ^a   Sumikawa, Koji ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ability to walk; Epidural analgesia; Postoperative pain; Ropivacaine; Thoracic surgery

Indexed keywords

BUPRENORPHINE; FENTANYL; FLURBIPROFEN; INFUSION FLUID; LIDOCAINE; LOXOPROFEN; METOCLOPRAMIDE; NALOXONE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OXYGEN; ROPIVACAINE; SEVOFLURANE; THIAMYLAL; VECURONIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG INTERMITTENT THERAPY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INCIDENCE; LUNG SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAUSEA; OPTIMAL DRUG DOSE; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE NAUSEA; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRURITUS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RESPIRATION DEPRESSION; REST; SIDE EFFECT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACOTOMY; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; WALKING;

AGED; AMIDES; ANALGESIA, EPIDURAL; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; BUPRENORPHINE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THORACOTOMY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 34547903887     PISSN: 09138668     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00540-007-0527-9     Document Type: Article

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