Transdermal buprenorphine for postoperative pain control in gynecological surgery: A prospective randomized study

Current Medical Research and Opinion

Volumn 28, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1597-1608

  Setti, Tommaso ^a   Sanfilippo, Filippo ^a,b   Leykin, Yigal ^a  

^a Santa Maria Degli Angeli   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Analgesia; Gynecological surgery; Postoperative pain; Transdermal buprenorphine

Indexed keywords

BUPRENORPHINE; KETOROLAC; MORPHINE;

ADULT; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DRUG EFFICACY; DYNAMIC NUMERICAL RATING SCALE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC SURGERY; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; HYSTERECTOMY; INCIDENCE; MYOMECTOMY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PATIENT SELECTION; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSTOPERATIVE ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE NAUSEA AND VOMITING; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PRURITUS; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SAMPLE SIZE; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; STATIC NUMERICAL RATING SCALE; TRANSDERMAL PATCH; VERTIGO;

ADMINISTRATION, CUTANEOUS; ADULT; AGED; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; BUPRENORPHINE; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN MANAGEMENT; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84867850894     PISSN: 03007995     EISSN: 14734877     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1185/03007995.2012.719864     Document Type: Article

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