Acute pain management of patients with multiple fractured ribs: A focus on regional techniques

Current Opinion in Critical Care

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 323-327

  Ho, Anthony M H ^a   Karmakar, Manoj K ^a   Critchley, Lester A H ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

pain; regional anesthesia; rib fracture; trauma

Indexed keywords

CODEINE; LIDOCAINE; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; MORPHINE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OPIATE; PARACETAMOL;

ACCURACY; ANALGESIA; CATHETER; CATHETERIZATION; DRUG MEGADOSE; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INTERCOSTAL NERVE BLOCK; INTERPLEURAL NERVE BLOCK; KIDNEY INJURY; LIVER TOXICITY; NEEDLE; NERVE BLOCK; NERVE STIMULATION; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; REVIEW; RIB FRACTURE; SIDE EFFECT; STOMACH IRRITATION; THORACIC PARAVERTEBRAL NERVE BLOCK; THORAX BLUNT TRAUMA; THORAX EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; THROMBOCYTE AGGREGATION INHIBITION; TRANSCUTANEOUS NERVE STIMULATION;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANESTHESIA, CONDUCTION; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; HUMANS; NERVE BLOCK; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; RIB FRACTURES; THORACIC INJURIES;

EID: 79960834032     PISSN: 10705295     EISSN: 15317072     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MCC.0b013e328348bf6f     Document Type: Review

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