Adjuvant analgesics in acute pain

Expert Opinion on Pharmacotherapy

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 363-385

  Lui, Frances ^a   Ng, Kwok Fu Jacobus ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY HOSPITAL   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

acute; adjuvant; analgesia; pain; postoperative

Indexed keywords

ALPHA 2 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; ANALGESIC AGENT; BETAMETHASONE; CLONIDINE; DEXAMETHASONE; DEXMEDETOMIDINE; DICLOFENAC; EPHEDRINE; FENTANYL; GABAPENTIN; KETAMINE; KETOBEMIDONE; KETOPROFEN; KETOROLAC; LIDOCAINE; LORAZEPAM; MAGNESIUM SULFATE; MELOXICAM; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MORPHINE; OXYCODONE; PARECOXIB; PETHIDINE; PHENYTOIN; PLACEBO; PREGABALIN; REMIFENTANIL; ROFECOXIB;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ATAXIA; COGNITION; CONFUSION; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; DIZZINESS; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG ELIMINATION; DRUG HALF LIFE; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG METABOLISM; DRUG POTENTIATION; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FATIGUE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HALLUCINATION; HUMAN; HYPERALGESIA; HYPERESTHESIA; HYPOTENSION; IMMUNOMODULATION; LOADING DRUG DOSE; LOW DRUG DOSE; NAUSEA; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NYSTAGMUS; OPTIMAL DRUG DOSE; PAIN; PAIN THRESHOLD; PATIENT CONTROLLED ANALGESIA; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRURITUS; RECOMMENDED DRUG DOSE; REVIEW; SEDATION; SIDE EFFECT; SPINAL ANESTHESIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; VOMITING;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANALGESICS; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; ANIMALS; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; PAIN; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE;

EID: 79251518316     PISSN: 14656566     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1517/14656566.2011.521743     Document Type: Review

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