The analgesic effect of betamethasone administered to outpatients before conscious sedation in gynecologic and obstetric surgery

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1127, Issue , 2008, Pages 147-151

  Pace, Maria Caterina ^a   Palagiano, Antonio ^a   Passavanti, Maria Beatrice ^a   Iannotti, Mario ^a   Sansone, Pasquale ^a   Maistro, Massimo ^a   Pace, Leonardo ^a   Bulletti, Carlo ^b   Aurilio, Caterina ^a  

^a SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^b Unit of Physiopathology of Reproduction   (Italy)

Author keywords

Betamethasone; Conscious sedation; Intraoperative and postoperative pain

Indexed keywords

ATROPINE; BETAMETHASONE; FENTANYL; MIDAZOLAM; ONDANSETRON; PLACEBO; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ANALGESIA; ANALGESIC ACTIVITY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONSCIOUS SEDATION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CURETTAGE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; ENDOMETRIUM ABLATION; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC SURGERY; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; LAPAROSCOPY; OBSTETRIC OPERATION; OUTPATIENT; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; THERAPEUTIC ABORTION; UTERINE CERVIX BIOPSY; UTERINE CERVIX CONIZATION;

EID: 42449164285     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1434.019     Document Type: Conference Paper

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