Systemic prokinetic pharmacologic treatment for postoperative adynamic ileus following abdominal surgery in adults

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn , Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Traut, Ulrike ^a   Brügger, Lukas ^b   Kunz, Regina ^c   Pauli Magnus, Christiane ^d   Haug, Klaus ^e   Bucher, Heiner ^a   Koller, Michael T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c Basler Institute for Clinical Epidemiology   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^e University Hospital Basel ^*  (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Abdomen *surgery ; Adult; Gastrointestinal agents classification; *therapeutic use ; Humans; Intestinal pseudo obstruction *drug therapy ; Peristalsis drug effects ; Postoperative complications *drug therapy ; Randomized controlled trials as topic

Indexed keywords

ADL 82689; ALBUMIN; ALVIMOPAN; BROMOPRIDE; CERULETIDE; CHOLECYSTOKININ; CISAPRIDE; DIHYDROERGOTAMINE; DOPAMINE RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; ERYTHROMYCIN; FRUCTOSE BISPHOSPHATASE; LIDOCAINE; METOCLOPRAMIDE; MU OPIATE RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; NEOSTIGMINE; PANTOTHENIC ACID; PLACEBO; PROKINETIC AGENT; PROPRANOLOL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VASOPRESSIN;

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ABSENCE OF SIDE EFFECTS; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ASTHENIA; BRADYCARDIA; BRONCHITIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLIC; CONSTIPATION; DEATH; DIAPHORESIS; FASCICULATION; FEVER; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEADACHE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPOKALEMIA; ILEUS; INFECTION; KIDNEY FAILURE; LUNG EMBOLISM; MIOSIS; NAUSEA; PARALYTIC ILEUS; PERITONITIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRURITUS; QT PROLONGATION; RASH; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; REVIEW; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SEDATION; SEPSIS; SIDE EFFECT; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; TACHYCARDIA; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; VEIN THROMBOSIS; VOMITING; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 77950241804     PISSN: 1469493X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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