Postoperative and preincisional electrical nerve stimulation TENS reduce postoperative opioid requirement after major spinal surgery

Journal of Neurosurgical Anesthesiology

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-5

  Unterrainer, Axel Friedrich ^a   Friedrich, Catrin ^a   Krenn, Michael H ^a   Piotrowski, Wolfgang P ^a   Golaszewski, Stefan M ^a   Hitzl, Wolfgang ^a  

^a PARACELSUS MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Major spinal surgery; Piritramid; Postoperative analgesia; Preincisional; Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation

Indexed keywords

DICLOFENAC; DIPYRONE; PIRITRAMIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG SAFETY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUMBAR SPINE; MAJOR SURGERY; MALE; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CONTROLLED ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; SPINE FUSION; SPINE SURGERY; TRANSCUTANEOUS NERVE STIMULATION; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALGESIA, PATIENT-CONTROLLED; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; DICLOFENAC; DIPYRONE; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PIRINITRAMIDE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; SPINE; TRANSCUTANEOUS ELECTRIC NERVE STIMULATION;

EID: 75149148140     PISSN: 08984921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ANA.0b013e3181b7fef5     Document Type: Article

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