The perioperative management of pain from intracranial surgery

Neurocritical Care

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 387-402

  Gottschalk, Allan ^a   Yaster, Myron ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute pain; Analgesia; Analgesics; Craniotomy; Neurosurgery; Opioids

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANESTHETIC AGENT; CHOLINE MAGNESIUM TRISALICYLATE; CODEINE; DEXAMETHASONE; FENTANYL; FENTANYL CITRATE; GABAPENTIN; HYDROCODONE; HYDROCODONE BITARTRATE PLUS PARACETAMOL; HYDROMORPHONE; IBUPROFEN; KETOROLAC; METHADONE; MORPHINE; NAPROXEN; OPIATE; OXYCODONE; PARACETAMOL; PERCOCET; PETHIDINE; PREGABALIN; RELISTOR; TYLOX; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANALGESIC AGENT;

ANALGESIA; ARTERIAL CARBON DIOXIDE TENSION; BOLUS INJECTION; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN SURGERY; BRONCHOSPASM; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONSTIPATION; CRANIECTOMY; CRANIOPLASTY; CRANIOTOMY; DIZZINESS; DRUG DEPENDENCE; DRUG TOLERANCE; GAIT DISORDER; GASTROINTESTINAL IRRITATION; HEMATURIA; HUMAN; MIOSIS; NAUSEA; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; REVIEW; REYE SYNDROME; SEDATION; SIDE EFFECT; THROMBOCYTE FUNCTION; URINE RETENTION; VOMITING; BRAIN DISEASE; INTENSIVE CARE; PATHOLOGY; PATIENT SELECTION; RISK FACTOR;

ANALGESICS; BRAIN DISEASES; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PATIENT SELECTION; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 70349231424     PISSN: 15416933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12028-008-9150-3     Document Type: Review

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