What is new in postoperative analgesia after caesarean sections?

Anaesthesia, Pain and Intensive Care

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 123-126

  Ismail, Samina ^a  

^a AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Adjuvant medications; Caesarean section; Opioids; Postoperative pain

Indexed keywords

BUPRENORPHINE; DEXMEDETOMIDINE; DIAMORPHINE; FENTANYL; GABAPENTIN; HYDROMORPHONE; IBUPROFEN; KETOROLAC; LEVOBUPIVACAINE; NALBUPHINE; NEOSTIGMINE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OPIATE; PARACETAMOL; PARECOXIB; PETHIDINE; SUFENTANIL;

CESAREAN SECTION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; HUMAN; LOW DRUG DOSE; NAUSEA; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRURITUS; REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; RESPIRATION DEPRESSION; REVIEW; SEDATION; SIDE EFFECT; TRANSVERSUS ABDOMINIS PLANE BLOCK; VOMITING;

EID: 84868273492     PISSN: 16078322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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