Perioperative Pain Management in the Neurosurgical Patient

Anesthesiology Clinics

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 655-674

  Ortiz Cardona, Jose ^a   Bendo, Audrée A ^a  

^a Downstate Health Sciences University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; BUPIVACAINE; DEXMEDETOMIDINE; DEXTROMETHORPHAN; DICLOFENAC; ETODOLAC; FLURBIPROFEN; IBUPROFEN; INDOMETACIN; KETAMINE; KETOPROFEN; KETOROLAC; MORPHINE; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; NABUMETONE; NALBUPHINE; NALMEFENE; NAPROXEN; NARCOTIC AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OPIATE; OXYCODONE; PARACETAMOL; PHENYLBUTAZONE; PIROXICAM; PROSTAGLANDIN SYNTHASE INHIBITOR; REMIFENTANIL; ROFECOXIB; ROPIVACAINE; UNINDEXED DRUG;

ANALGESIA; BACKACHE; BLEEDING TIME; BRAIN SURGERY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONSTIPATION; CRANIOTOMY; EMOTIONAL STRESS; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; LOW DRUG DOSE; MENTAL DISEASE; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROSURGERY; NOCICEPTIVE RECEPTOR; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PHYSICAL STRESS; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRURITUS; REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; RESPIRATION DEPRESSION; REVIEW; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SCALP BLOCK; SEDATION; SIDE EFFECT; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SKIN INCISION; SPINE SURGERY; THROMBOCYTE DYSFUNCTION; THROMBOEMBOLISM; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ANALGESIA; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; CRANIOTOMY; HUMANS; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PERIOPERATIVE CARE; SPINE;

EID: 34548646395     PISSN: 19322275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anclin.2007.05.003     Document Type: Review

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