Use of epidural and peripheral nerve blocks at the end of life in children and young adults with cancer: The collaboration between a pain service and a palliative care service

Paediatric Anaesthesia

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1070-1077

  Anghelescu, Doralina L ^a   Faughnan, Lane G ^a   Baker, Justin N ^a   Yang, Jie ^a   Kane, Javier R ^a  

^a ST JUDE CHILDREN S RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

cancer; end of life; epidural; pain; peripheral nerve block

Indexed keywords

NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CANCER PAIN; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEATH; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; FEVER; HUMAN; INFECTION; NERVE BLOCK; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINE METASTASIS; TERMINAL CARE; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; VERTEBRA FRACTURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALGESIA, EPIDURAL; ANESTHESIA, EPIDURAL; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; CHILD; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; NERVE BLOCK; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PALLIATIVE CARE; PERIPHERAL NERVES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TERMINAL CARE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78649670586     PISSN: 11555645     EISSN: 14609592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9592.2010.03449.x     Document Type: Article

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