Management of postoperative ileus

Disease-a-Month

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 204-214

  Stewart, David ^a   Waxman, Kenneth ^b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SANTA BARBARA COTTAGE HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

17 METHYLNALTREXONE; ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; ALVIMOPAN; CERULETIDE; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; CISAPRIDE; ERYTHROMYCIN; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; METOCLOPRAMIDE; MORPHINE; NALOXONE; NARCOTIC ANTAGONIST; NEOSTIGMINE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PETHIDINE; PLACEBO; TEGASEROD;

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; AGITATION; BRADYCARDIA; CHEWING GUM; CLINICAL TRIAL; DROWSINESS; DRUG MECHANISM; DYSTONIA; EARLY INTERVENTION; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT FUNCTION; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; ILEUS; IRRITABLE COLON; MASTICATION; NONHUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE ILEUS; REFEEDING; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SIDE EFFECT; TORSADE DES POINTES; TUBE FEEDING;

HUMANS; ILEUS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 77950318553     PISSN: 00115029     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.disamonth.2009.12.008     Document Type: Review

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