Oral versus intravenous opioid dosing for the initial treatment of acute musculoskeletal pain in the emergency department

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1234-1240

  Miner, James R ^a   Moore, Johanna ^a   Gray, Richard O ^a   Skinner, Lisa ^a   Biros, Michelle H ^a  

^a HENNEPIN COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Emergency department; Emergency medicine; Morphine; Oxycodone; Pain; Treatment

Indexed keywords

MORPHINE SULFATE; NALOXONE; OPIATE; OXYCODONE; PARACETAMOL; PERCOCET;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG ABSORPTION; DRUG BIOAVAILABILITY; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUSCULOSKELETAL PAIN; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; CHILD; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORPHINE; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASES; OXYCODONE; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 57349087834     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2008.00266.x     Document Type: Article

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