Pre-Incisional Analgesia with Intravenous or Subcutaneous Infiltration of Ketamine Reduces Postoperative Pain in Patients after Open Cholecystectomy: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Study

Pain Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1418-1426

  Safavi, Mohammadreza ^a   Honarmand, Azim ^a   Nematollahy, Zahra ^a  

^a ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Acute; Ketamine; Open Cholecystectomy; Pain; Postoperative; Preemptive

Indexed keywords

KETAMINE; PLACEBO;

ADULT; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIZZINESS; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFICACY; EXTUBATION; FEMALE; HALLUCINATION; HUMAN; INCISION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAUSEA; POSTOPERATIVE ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; VISCERAL PAIN; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; VOMITING; WOUND PAIN;

EID: 80052832772     PISSN: 15262375     EISSN: 15264637     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-4637.2011.01205.x     Document Type: Article

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