Current therapies to shorten postoperative ileus

Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine

Volumn 76, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 641-648

  Johnson, Michael D ^a   Walsh, R Matthew ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT;

ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ANIMAL; CHEWING GUM; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; DIGESTIVE TRACT INTUBATION; DRUG EFFECT; ENTERIC FEEDING; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; GASTROSCOPY; HUMAN; ILEUS; LAPAROSCOPY; METHODOLOGY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; OGILVIE SYNDROME; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; STOMACH PARESIS; TIME;

ANALGESIA, EPIDURAL; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; ANIMALS; CHEWING GUM; COLONIC PSEUDO-OBSTRUCTION; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; ENTERAL NUTRITION; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; GASTROPARESIS; GASTROSCOPY; HUMANS; ILEUS; INTUBATION, GASTROINTESTINAL; LAPAROSCOPY; PARASYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RISK FACTORS; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 74249106688     PISSN: 08911150     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3949/ccjm.76a.09051     Document Type: Review

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