Ketorolac use for postoperative pain management following lumbar decompression surgery: A prospective, randomized, double-blinded, placebo-controlled trial

Spine

Volumn 33, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1313-1317

  Cassinelli, Ezequiel H ^a   Dean, Clayton L ^b   Garcia, Ryan M ^b   Furey, Christopher G ^b   Bohlman, Henry H ^b  

^a Peachtree Orthopaedic Clinic   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ketorolac; Lumbar decompression; Morphine; Prospective randomized placebo; Toradol

Indexed keywords

ESOMEPRAZOLE; KETOROLAC; MORPHINE; OXYCODONE; PLACEBO; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION; BLEEDING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFUSION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIET RESTRICTION; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFICACY; EPIDURAL HEMATOMA; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMAN; ILEUS; LAMINECTOMY; LIVER TOXICITY; NEPHROTOXICITY; PAIN ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SIDE EFFECT; URINE RETENTION; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; AGED; DRUG ADMINISTRATION; FEMALE; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; KETOROLAC; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORPHINE; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 46249093969     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e31817329bd     Document Type: Article

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