Thoracic epidural analgesia and acute pain management

Anesthesiology

Volumn 115, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 181-188

  Manion, Smith C ^a   Brennan, Timothy J ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS AND CLINICS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; ANALGESIC AGENT; ANESTHETIC AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; BUPIVACAINE; CLONIDINE; FENTANYL; HYDROMORPHONE; LEVOBUPIVACAINE; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; MORPHINE; OPIATE; ROPIVACAINE; SUFENTANIL;

ANALGESIA; BACKACHE; CARDIOTOXICITY; COLON RESECTION; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL; DRUG INDICATION; DRUG POTENTIATION; EPIDURAL ABSCESS; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; EPIDURAL HEMATOMA; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; ILEUS; LUNG DISEASE; NAUSEA; PAIN; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURY; POSTDURAL PUNCTURE HEADACHE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE NAUSEA; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE VOMITING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; RADICULAR PAIN; RESPIRATION DEPRESSION; REVIEW; RIB FRACTURE; SEDATION; SIDE EFFECT; SKIN INFECTION; SOMNOLENCE; STRESS; THORACIC EPIDURAL ANALGESIA; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; VOMITING;

EID: 79959517135     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: 15281175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ALN.0b013e318220847c     Document Type: Note

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