Safety and efficacy of patient controlled epidural analgesia following pediatric spinal surgery

Paediatric Anaesthesia

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 132-139

  Saudan, Sonja ^a   Habre, Walid ^a,c   Ceroni, Dimitri ^a   Meyer, Pierre Alain ^a   Greenberg, Robert S ^b   Kaelin, André ^a   Von Ungern Sternberg, Britta S ^a  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c Geneva Children's Hospital   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bupivacaine; Patient controlled epidural analgesia; Scoliosis

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; ATRACURIUM; BUPIVACAINE; CLONIDINE; DESFLURANE; FENTANYL; ISOFLURANE; MIDAZOLAM; MORPHINE; PARACETAMOL; PROPOFOL; SEVOFLURANE; SUFENTANIL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONVULSION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; EPIDURAL CATHETER; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NAUSEA; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CONTROLLED ANALGESIA; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PEDIATRIC ANESTHESIA; PREMEDICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; SCHOOL CHILD; SCOLIOSIS; SPINE SURGERY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VOMITING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALGESIA, EPIDURAL; ANALGESIA, PATIENT-CONTROLLED; ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; BUPIVACAINE; CHILD; HUMANS; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PEDIATRICS; POSTOPERATIVE NAUSEA AND VOMITING; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCOLIOSIS;

EID: 37748999583     PISSN: 11555645     EISSN: 14609592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9592.2007.02383.x     Document Type: Article

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