A small-dose naloxone infusion alleviates nausea and sedation without impacting analgesia via intravenous tramadol

Chinese Medical Journal

Volumn 123, Issue 13, 2010, Pages 1695-1698

  Jia, Dong Lin ^a   Ni, Cheng ^a   Xu, Ting ^a   Zhang, Li Ping ^a   Guo, Xiang Yang ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY THIRD HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

Analgesia; Naloxone; Nausea; Sedation; Tramadol

Indexed keywords

NALOXONE; TRAMADOL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CERVICAL SPINE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DRUG POTENTIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOW DRUG DOSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAUSEA; PAIN ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE NAUSEA; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SEDATION; SIDE EFFECT; SPINE SURGERY; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; VOMITING;

ANALGESIA, PATIENT-CONTROLLED; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NALOXONE; NARCOTIC ANTAGONISTS; NAUSEA; TRAMADOL;

EID: 77954514060     PISSN: 03666999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.issn.0366-6999.2010.13.015     Document Type: Article

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