Intravenous nonopioid analgesic drugs in chronic low back pain patients on chronic opioid treatment: A crossover, randomised, double-blinded, placebo-controlled study

European Journal of Anaesthesiology

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 35-40

  Wetzel, Leonore ^a   Zadrazil, Markus ^a   Paternostro Sluga, Tatjana ^a   Authried, Georg ^a   Kozek Langenecker, Sibylle ^b   Scharbert, Gisela ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b Department of Anaesthetics and Intensive Care   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; DICLOFENAC; DIPYRONE; NEODOLPASSE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OPIATE; ORPHENADRINE; PARACETAMOL; PARECOXIB; PLACEBO; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; BREAKTHROUGH PAIN; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG ELIMINATION; DRUG HALF LIFE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; MCGILL PAIN QUESTIONNAIRE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE EXERCISE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECOMMENDED DRUG DOSE; SPINE MOBILITY; VERY ELDERLY; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; ANTICIPATION; COGNITION; ENDURANCE; INFORMED CONSENT; MEDICAL SOCIETY; NOCICEPTION; PAIN INTENSITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPEATED DRUG DOSE; ROLAND MORRIS QUESTIONNAIRE; SINGLE DRUG DOSE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALGESICS, NON-NARCOTIC; CHRONIC DISEASE; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

EID: 84893702411     PISSN: 02650215     EISSN: 13652346     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/EJA.0b013e328365ae28     Document Type: Article

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