Postoperative pain control for primary cleft lip repair in infants: Is there an advantage in performing peripheral nerve blocks?

Paediatric Anaesthesia

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1060-1065

  Simion, Carmen ^a,b   Corcoran, Julia ^a,b   Iyer, Aditya ^a   Suresh, Santhanam ^a,b  

^a CHILDREN'S MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Analgesia; Cleft lip repair in infants; Feeding; Fentanyl; Infraorbital nerve block

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; BUPIVACAINE; CODEINE; FENTANYL; IBUPROFEN; NITROUS OXIDE PLUS OXYGEN; OPIATE; PARACETAMOL; ROCURONIUM; SEVOFLURANE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ARTICLE; CLEFT LIP; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDING; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT; HUMAN; INFANT; INFRAORBITAL NERVE; NERVE BLOCK; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PERIPHERAL NERVE; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

ANALGESICS, OPIOID; ANESTHESIA, INTRAVENOUS; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; BREAST FEEDING; BUPIVACAINE; CLEFT LIP; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; FENTANYL; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; NERVE BLOCK; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PERIPHERAL NERVES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 53349108965     PISSN: 11555645     EISSN: 14609592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9592.2008.02721.x     Document Type: Article

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