Analgesia Best Practice After Cardiac Surgery

Anesthesiology Clinics

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 591-602

  Konstantatos, Alex ^a   Silvers, Andrew J ^a   Myles, Paul S ^a,b  

^a ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMITRIPTYLINE; CARBAMAZEPINE; CELECOXIB; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2 INHIBITOR; GABAPENTIN; KETAMINE; MORPHINE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OPIATE; OXYCODONE; PARACETAMOL; PARECOXIB; PREGABALIN; TRAMADOL; VALDECOXIB; VALPROIC ACID;

ANALGESIA; BLEEDING; BRONCHOSPASM; CLINICAL TRIAL; CORONARY ARTERY THROMBOSIS; DRUG FORMULATION; DRUG MECHANISM; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; EPIDURAL HEMATOMA; GASTRITIS; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; KIDNEY DISEASE; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; PEPTIC ULCER; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRURITUS; PSYCHOSIS; REVIEW;

ANALGESIA; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; HUMANS; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 50249128748     PISSN: 19322275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anclin.2008.03.002     Document Type: Review

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