Decreased narcotic use with an implantable local anesthetic catheter after deep inferior epigastric perforator flap breast reconstruction

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 618-620

  Boehmler IV, James H ^a   Venturi, Mark L ^a   Nahabedian, Maurice Y ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Abdomen; Breast; Breast reconstruction; Catheter; DIEP; Flap; Free flap; Local anesthetic; Narcotic; On Q; Pain; Pain control; Pain pump; Reconstruction; TRAM

Indexed keywords

CODEINE; FENTANYL; HYDROCODONE; HYDROMORPHONE; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; MORPHINE; OXYCODONE; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT;

ABDOMEN; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEEP INFERIOR EPIGASTRIC PERFORATOR FLAP; DOSE CALCULATION; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MINIPUMP; NARCOTIC DEPENDENCE; PATIENT CONTROLLED ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT DURATION; BREAST TUMOR; EPIGASTRIC ARTERY; INDWELLING CATHETER; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; MIDDLE AGED; PLASTIC SURGERY; VASCULARIZATION;

ABDOMEN; ADULT; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; ANESTHESIA, LOCAL; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; EPIGASTRIC ARTERIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL FLAPS;

EID: 66149154654     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SAP.0b013e31817fe61c     Document Type: Article

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