Black box warning: Is ketorolac safe for use after cardiac surgery?

Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 274-279

  Oliveri, Lisa ^a,b   Jerzewski, Katie ^a,b   Kulik, Alexander ^a,b  

^a FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BOCA RATON REGIONAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

analgesia; cardiac surgery; ketorolac; NSAIDs; postoperative; safety

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT; KETOROLAC; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG FATALITY; DRUG SAFETY; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART SURGERY; HEART VALVE; HEART VALVE SURGERY; HEPARIN INDUCED THROMBOCYTOPENIA; HUMAN; KIDNEY FUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; POSTOPERATIVE ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURGICAL RISK; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERY ELDERLY;

ANALGESIA; CARDIAC SURGERY; KETOROLAC; NSAIDS; POSTOPERATIVE; SAFETY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; COHORT STUDIES; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CREATININE; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DIALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; KETOROLAC; KIDNEY FUNCTION TESTS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84896392624     PISSN: 10530770     EISSN: 15328422     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.jvca.2013.07.014     Document Type: Article

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