The role of the autonomic nervous system in acute surgical pain processing - What do we know?

Anaesthesia

Volumn 66, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 541-544

  Bantel, C ^a,b   Trapp, S ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b CHELSEA AND WESTMINSTER HOSPITAL NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; LIDOCAINE;

ADRENERGIC ACTIVITY; ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANESTHESIST; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRAIN STEM; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HYPERALGESIA; HYPOTHALAMUS; INSULA; LOCUS CERULEUS; LUMBAR SPINAL CORD; NERVE STIMULATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; PAIN; PAIN THRESHOLD; PARASYMPATHETIC FUNCTION; POSTGANGLIONIC NERVE; RAPHE MAGNUS NUCLEUS; REVIEW; SOLITARY TRACT NUCLEUS; STELLATE GANGLION; STELLATE GANGLION BLOCK; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VAGUS NERVE; VISCERAL PAIN;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMALS; AUTONOMIC NERVE BLOCK; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; HUMANS; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; STELLATE GANGLION; VAGUS NERVE;

EID: 79959637504     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: 13652044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.2011.06791.x     Document Type: Review

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