Epidural Analgesia in Open Resection of Colorectal Cancer: Is there a Clinical Benefit? A Retrospective Study on 1,470 Patients

Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1386-1393

  Warschkow, Rene ^a,b   Steffen, Thomas ^a   Lüthi, Andreas ^a   Filipovic, Miodrag ^a   Beutner, Ulrich ^a   Schmied, Bruno M ^a   Müller, Sascha A ^a   Tarantino, Ignazio ^a  

^a Kantonsspital St Gallen ^*  (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Colorectal cancer; Epidural analgesia; Keywords; Mortality; Pneumonia; Postoperative

Indexed keywords

BUPIVACAINE; FENTANYL; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT;

AGE; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ARTICLE; COLORECTAL TUMOR; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; PNEUMONIA; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL INFECTION;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALGESIA, EPIDURAL; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; ANASTOMOTIC LEAK; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; BUPIVACAINE; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FENTANYL; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONIA; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 79960848728     PISSN: 1091255X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11605-011-1582-y     Document Type: Article

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