Postoperative analgesia in morbid obesity

Obesity Surgery

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 652-659

  Alvarez, Adrian ^a   Singh, Preet Mohinder ^b   Sinha, Ashish C ^c  

^a HOSPITAL ITALIANO DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

^c DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adjuvant analgesics for morbid obese; Morbid obese postoperative analgesia; Opioid sparing analgesia

Indexed keywords

ALPHA 2 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; ANALGESIC AGENT; BUPIVACAINE; CLONIDINE; DEXMEDETOMIDINE; FENTANYL; KETAMINE; KETOROLAC; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; MAGNESIUM; MORPHINE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OPIATE; PARACETAMOL; PREGABALIN; REMIFENTANIL; ROPIVACAINE; TRAMADOL; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT;

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; CHRONIC PAIN; DRUG SAFETY; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; GASTRIC BANDING; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MORBID OBESITY; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; POSTOPERATIVE ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; REVIEW; SLEEVE GASTRECTOMY; ANALGESIA; COMPLICATION; LAPAROSCOPY; NERVE BLOCK; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PROCEDURES; SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING;

ANALGESIA; ANALGESICS; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; NERVE BLOCK; OBESITY, MORBID; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; SLEEP APNEA, OBSTRUCTIVE;

EID: 84898040217     PISSN: 09608923     EISSN: 17080428     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11695-014-1185-2     Document Type: Review

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