'Protective premedication': An option with gabapentin and related drugs? A review of gabapentin and pregabalin in the treatment of post-operative pain

Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica

Volumn 48, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1130-1136

  Dahl, J B ^a,b   Mathiesen, O ^a   Moiniche S ^a  

^a GLOSTRUP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b Mental Health Services CPH   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Gabapentin; Hyperalgesia; Pain; Post operative; Pregabalin

Indexed keywords

ANTACID AGENT; FENTANYL; GABAPENTIN; IBUPROFEN; NALOXONE; OPIATE; OXAZEPAM; PREGABALIN; REMIFENTANIL;

ATAXIA; DIZZINESS; DRUG TOLERANCE; FATIGUE; HUMAN; HYPERALGESIA; MEDLINE; MULTIPLE DRUG DOSE; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NONHUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE NAUSEA AND VOMITING; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PREMEDICATION; PREOPERATIVE TREATMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEDATION; SOMNOLENCE; URINE RETENTION;

AMINES; ANALGESICS; ANIMALS; CYCLOHEXANECARBOXYLIC ACIDS; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; HUMANS; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS;

EID: 4644338538     PISSN: 00015172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-6576.2004.00484.x     Document Type: Review

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