Prolonged nerve block by microencapsulated bupivacaine prevents acute postoperative pain in rats

Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 607-615

  Ohri, Rachit ^a   Blaskovich, Phillip ^a   Wang, Jeffrey Chi Fei ^b   Pham, Lan ^a   Nichols, Gary ^a   Hildebrand, William ^a   Costa, Daniel ^a   Scarborough, Nelson ^a   Herman, Clifford ^a   Strichartz, Gary ^b  

^a MEDTRONIC INC   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUPIVACAINE; MICROSPHERE;

ALLODYNIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTINOCICEPTION; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG RELEASE; HYPERALGESIA; IN VITRO STUDY; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE BLOCK; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCIATIC NERVE; SLOW RELEASE FORMULATION;

ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BUPIVACAINE; DELAYED-ACTION PREPARATIONS; HYPERALGESIA; INJECTIONS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MICROSPHERES; NERVE BLOCK; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; RATS; SCIATIC NERVE;

EID: 84868290383     PISSN: 10987339     EISSN: 15328651     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AAP.0b013e3182680f35     Document Type: Article

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