Strategies for postoperative pain management

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Anaesthesiology

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 703-717

  Brown, Amanda K ^a   Christo, Paul J ^a   Wu, Christopher L ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Epidural; Non steroid anti inflammatory agent; Opioid; Patient controlled analgesia; Postoperative pain

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ADRENALIN; BUPIVACAINE; CLONIDINE; CODEINE; CODEINE PLUS DICLOFENAC; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2 INHIBITOR; DEXTROPROPOXYPHENE; DEXTROPROPOXYPHENE PLUS PARACETAMOL; DIHYDROCODEINE; FENTANYL; HYDROMORPHONE; IBUPROFEN; KETAMINE; KETOROLAC; LEVOBUPIVACAINE; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; MORPHINE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OPIATE DERIVATIVE; OXYCODONE; PARACETAMOL; PETHIDINE; PROSTAGLANDIN; PROSTAGLANDIN SYNTHASE; PROSTAGLANDIN SYNTHASE INHIBITOR; ROFECOXIB; ROPIVACAINE; TRAMADOL; UNINDEXED DRUG;

BLOOD DISEASE; BONE DISEASE; BRADYCARDIA; DISEASE SEVERITY; DIZZINESS; DROWSINESS; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MECHANISM; ENZYME INHIBITION; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; KIDNEY DISEASE; MOTOR NERVE BLOCK; NAUSEA; NEUROBIOLOGY; NEUROTOXICITY; NOCICEPTION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT CONTROLLED ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SEDATION; SIDE EFFECT; SWEAT GLAND DISEASE; THROMBOCYTE DYSFUNCTION; VOMITING; XEROSTOMIA;

EID: 4344642621     PISSN: 15216896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpa.2004.05.004     Document Type: Article

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