Pain management after ambulatory surgery

Current Opinion in Anaesthesiology

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 738-743

  Schug, Stephan A ^a,b,c   Chong, Chui ^b  

^a School of Medicine and Pharmaco   (Australia)

^b ROYAL PERTH HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ambulatory surgery; Local anaesthetics; Multimodal analgesia; Non opioids; Postoperative analgesia

Indexed keywords

BUPIVACAINE; CAFFEINE; CODEINE; DEXAMETHASONE; DIPYRONE; ETORICOXIB; FENTANYL; GABAPENTIN; IBUPROFEN; KETOROLAC; MELOXICAM; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OPIATE; PARACETAMOL; PARECOXIB; PREGABALIN; ROPIVACAINE; TRAMADOL; VALDECOXIB;

AMBULATORY SURGERY; ANALGESIA; BRADYCARDIA; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PERIPHERAL NERVE; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATION DEPRESSION; REVIEW; SAFETY; SCORING SYSTEM; STOMACH ULCER;

AMBULATORY SURGICAL PROCEDURES; ANALGESICS; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; HUMANS; NERVE BLOCK; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PERIPHERAL NERVES;

EID: 70449493189     PISSN: 09527907     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACO.0b013e32833020f4     Document Type: Review

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