Clinical and economic burden of opioid use for Postsurgical pain: Focus on ventilatory impairment and ileus

Pharmacotherapy

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Barletta, Jeffrey F ^a  

^a MIDWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Costs; Length of stay; LOS; Opioids; Postoperative ileus; Postsurgical pain; Ventilatory impairment

Indexed keywords

ALVIMOPAN; HYDROMORPHONE; OPIATE;

ARTICLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; CONSTIPATION; COST CONTROL; COUGHING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; DRUG RESPONSE; DRUG USE; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HISTAMINE RELEASE; HUMAN; IMMUNOMODULATION; INCIDENCE; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; LENGTH OF STAY; MYOCLONUS; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NEUROTOXICITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CONTROLLED ANALGESIA; PATIENT MONITORING; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE ILEUS; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRURITUS; RESPIRATION DEPRESSION; RIGIDITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; SEROTONIN SYNDROME; SIDE EFFECT; TREATMENT DURATION; URINE RETENTION; WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME; XEROSTOMIA;

ANALGESICS, OPIOID; COST OF ILLNESS; HOSPITAL COSTS; HUMANS; ILEUS; LENGTH OF STAY; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RESPIRATORY INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 84867600757     PISSN: 02770008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.1875-9114.2012.01178.x     Document Type: Article

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