Advances in analgesia in the older patient

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Anaesthesiology

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 367-378

  Coldrey, Julia C ^a,b   Upton, Richard N ^c   MacIntyre, Pamela E ^a,b  

^a ROYAL ADELAIDE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

aged; ageing; analgesics; frail elderly; non opioid analgesics; opioid analgesics; postoperative pain

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANALGESIC AGENT; ANGIOTENSIN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; BUPRENORPHINE; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2 INHIBITOR; DEXTROPROPOXYPHENE; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DIURETIC AGENT; FENTANYL; FUROSEMIDE; GABAPENTIN; IBUPROFEN; INDOMETACIN; KETAMINE; KETOPROFEN; KETOROLAC; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; MORPHINE; NAPROXEN; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; NORPETHIDINE; OPIATE; OXYCODONE; PARACETAMOL; PETHIDINE; PIROXICAM; TRAMADOL; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; UNINDEXED DRUG; WARFARIN;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; AGING; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONSTIPATION; DELIRIUM; DEPRESSION; DRUG ABSORPTION; DRUG CLEARANCE; DRUG METABOLISM; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; HYPOVOLEMIA; KIDNEY FAILURE; LOW DRUG DOSE; NEPHROTOXICITY; NEUROTOXICITY; PAIN; PATIENT CONTROLLED ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RESPIRATION DEPRESSION; ULCER; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

EID: 80052975073     PISSN: 15216896     EISSN: 1532169X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpa.2011.06.003     Document Type: Review

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