Nitrous Oxide-Oxygen Mixture During Care of Bedsores and Painful Ulcers in the Elderly: A Randomized, Crossover, Open-Label Pilot Study

Journal of Pain and Symptom Management

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 171-176

  Paris, Adeline ^a   Horvath, Rémi ^a   Basset, Pierre ^b   Thiery, Stéphane ^b   Couturier, Pascal ^a   Franco, Alain ^a   Bosson, Jean Luc ^a  

^a GRENOBLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^b CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE CHAMBÉRY   (France)

Author keywords

bedsores; elderly; Nitrous oxide oxygen mixture; pain

Indexed keywords

MORPHINE; NITROUS OXIDE PLUS OXYGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DECUBITUS; DROWSINESS; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; EUPHORIA; FEELING OF INEBRIATION; FEMALE; GERIATRIC CARE; HUMAN; LACRIMAL FLUID; LOGORHEA; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MONOTHERAPY; MULTICENTER STUDY; NAUSEA; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RESTLESSNESS; SENSATION OF INEBRIATION; SIDE EFFECT; ULCER; VOMITING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORPHINE; NITROUS OXIDE; OXYGEN; PAIN; PILOT PROJECTS; PRESSURE ULCER;

EID: 38349112919     PISSN: 08853924     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2007.03.014     Document Type: Article

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