Ketamine spares morphine consumption after transthoracic lung and heart surgery without adverse hemodynamic effects

Pharmacological Research

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 38-44

  Nesher, Nahum ^a   Serovian, Irena ^a   Marouani, Nissim ^a   Chazan, Shoshana ^a   Weinbroum, Avi A ^a  

^a TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Pain; Postoperative care; Thoracotomy

Indexed keywords

DICLOFENAC; FENTANYL; KETAMINE; METOCLOPRAMIDE; MIDAZOLAM; MORPHINE; PANCURONIUM; PROPOFOL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREATHING RATE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG USE; FEMALE; HEART SURGERY; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; ISRAEL; LUNG SURGERY; LUNG TUMOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE CARDIAC SURGERY; OFF PUMP CORONARY SURGERY; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CONTROLLED ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE NAUSEA AND VOMITING; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE OXIMETRY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STERNOTOMY; THORACOTOMY;

ANALGESIA, PATIENT-CONTROLLED; ANALGESICS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; KETAMINE; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORPHINE; MYOCARDIAL REVASCULARIZATION; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THORACOTOMY;

EID: 50649091339     PISSN: 10436618     EISSN: 10961186     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.phrs.2008.06.003     Document Type: Article

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