Opiates and elderly: Use and side effects

Clinical Interventions in Aging

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 273-278

  Chau, Diane L ^a,c,d   Walker, Vanessa ^b,c   Pai, Latha ^a,c   Cho, Lwin M ^a,c  

^a VA Sierra Nevada Health Care System   (United States)

^b Sierra Nevada Healthcare System   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Elderly; Opiates; Pain; Side effects

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTACID AGENT; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; BARBITURIC ACID DERIVATIVE; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; CODEINE; DEXTROPROPOXYPHENE; GABAPENTIN; HISTAMINE H2 RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; HYDROCODONE; HYDROMORPHONE; IBUPROFEN; LAXATIVE; LEVORPHANOL; METHADONE; MORPHINE; NALOXONE; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OPIATE; OXYCODONE; OXYMORPHONE; PARACETAMOL; PETHIDINE; PLACEBO; STEROID; TRAMADOL; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; UNINDEXED DRUG;

ADD ON THERAPY; ADJUVANT THERAPY; AGED; AGING; ALLODYNIA; ANALGESIC ACTIVITY; ANTICHOLINERGIC EFFECT; BONE DENSITY; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; COMORBIDITY; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED DRUG RELEASE; DELIRIUM; DEMENTIA; DOSAGE SCHEDULE COMPARISON; DOSE RESPONSE; DROWSINESS; DRUG ABSORPTION; DRUG ABUSE; DRUG CLEARANCE; DRUG CONTRAINDICATION; DRUG DISTRIBUTION; DRUG DOSE ESCALATION; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG ELIMINATION; DRUG EXCRETION; DRUG FORMULATION; DRUG HALF LIFE; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG METABOLISM; DRUG POTENCY; DRUG POTENTIATION; DRUG PROTEIN BINDING; DRUG RELEASE; DRUG SAFETY; ELDERLY CARE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GERIATRICS; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPERALGESIA; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS GONAD SYSTEM; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LIBIDO; LIVER FUNCTION; LOW DRUG DOSE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MONOTHERAPY; MYOCLONUS; NAUSEA; NERVOUSNESS; NOCICEPTION; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PROLACTIN BLOOD LEVEL; PRURITUS; QT PROLONGATION; RECOMMENDED DRUG DOSE; RESPIRATION DEPRESSION; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SEDATION; SEIZURE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SIDE EFFECT; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; TORSADE DES POINTES; URINE RETENTION; VETERAN; WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME;

AGED; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; HUMANS; METABOLIC DETOXICATION, PHASE I; PAIN;

EID: 47849097639     PISSN: 11769092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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