Intravenous paracetamol improves the quality of postoperative analgesia but does not decrease narcotic requirements

Journal of Neurosurgical Anesthesiology

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 169-173

  Cakan, Turkay ^a   Inan, Nurten ^a,b   Culhaoglu, Safiye ^a   Bakkal, Kursat ^a   Başar, Hulya ^a  

^a ANKARA TRAINING AND RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

^b NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Discectomy; Paracetamol; Postoperative analgesia

Indexed keywords

MORPHINE; NARCOTIC AGENT; PARACETAMOL; PLACEBO; ANALGESIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIZZINESS; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DROWSINESS; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG USE; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HEART RATE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; LAMINECTOMY; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NAUSEA; OXYGEN SATURATION; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CONTROLLED ANALGESIA; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REST; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; VOMITING; ANALGESIA; BLOOD PRESSURE; DOSE RESPONSE; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MIDDLE AGED;

ACETAMINOPHEN; ADULT; ANALGESIA; ANALGESIA, PATIENT-CONTROLLED; ANALGESICS, NON-NARCOTIC; BLOOD PRESSURE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; HEART RATE; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MIDDLE AGED; MORPHINE; NARCOTICS; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE;

EID: 49649086687     PISSN: 08984921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ANA.0b013e3181705cfb     Document Type: Article

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