Postoperative analgesia and discharge criteria for day surgery

Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 153-156

  Rastogi, Sachin ^a,b   Vickers, Andrew P ^a,b  

^a HOPE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL LANCASTER INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acute pain; adjuvants; day surgery; discharge guidelines; postoperative analgesia; protective analgesia

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT; CODEINE; DEXAMETHASONE; GABAPENTIN; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PARACETAMOL; TRAMADOL;

AMBULATORY SURGERY; ANESTHETIC RECOVERY; BLEEDING; BRONCHOSPASM; DOSE RESPONSE; DROWSINESS; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG METABOLISM; DRUG POTENTIATION; DRUG TOLERANCE; ECONOMIC ASPECT; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; PATIENT CARE; POSTDURAL PUNCTURE HEADACHE; POSTOPERATIVE ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOVERY ROOM; REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; REVIEW; SCORING SYSTEM; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SPINAL ANESTHESIA; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT;

EID: 77949582852     PISSN: 14720299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mpaic.2009.11.003     Document Type: Review

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