The effects of gabapentin on acute and chronic postoperative pain after coronary artery bypass graft surgery

Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 824-829

  Ucak, Alper ^a   Onan, Burak ^a   Sen, Huseyin ^a   Selcuk, Ismail ^a   Turan, Alpaslan ^b   Yilmaz, Ahmet Turan ^a  

^a GATA HAYDARPASA TRAINING HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

^b LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

cardiac surgery; coronary artery bypass graft surgery; gabapentin; postoperative pain

Indexed keywords

GABAPENTIN; PARACETAMOL; PLACEBO; TRAMADOL;

ADULT; ANALGESIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; ATELECTASIS; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; COUGHING; DIARRHEA; DIZZINESS; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG SCREENING; DRUG USE; DYSPEPSIA; EXTUBATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEADACHE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MALE; MORBIDITY; NAUSEA; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PLEURA EFFUSION; POSTOPERATIVE ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RATING SCALE; SOMNOLENCE; STERNOTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; VOMITING;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; AMINES; ANALGESICS; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; CHRONIC DISEASE; CHRONIC PAIN; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CYCLOHEXANECARBOXYLIC ACIDS; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL REVASCULARIZATION; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SAMPLE SIZE; STERNOTOMY; TRAMADOL;

EID: 80051783012     PISSN: 10530770     EISSN: 15328422     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.jvca.2010.11.017     Document Type: Article

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