Perioperative epidural or intravenous ketamine does not improve the effectiveness of thoracic epidural analgesia for acute and chronic pain after thoracotomy

Clinical Journal of Pain

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 490-500

  Tena, Beatriz ^a   Gomar, Carmen ^a   Rios, Jose ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL CLÍNIC   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Hyperalgesia; Persistent postsurgical pain; Plasma ketamine levels; Quantitative Sensory Testing; Racemic ketamine; Thoracic epidural analgesia; Thoracotomy

Indexed keywords

FENTANYL; KETAMINE; ROPIVACAINE; ANALGESIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ALLODYNIA; ARTICLE; CATASTROPHIZING SCALE; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DIPLOPIA; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SELF ADMINISTRATION; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; FEMALE; HALLUCINATION; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HYPERALGESIA; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; NEUROPATHIC PAIN SYMPTOM INVENTORY; NIGHTMARE; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSTOPERATIVE ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE NAUSEA; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE VOMITING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE SENSORY TESTING; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SURGICAL PATIENT; THORACOTOMY; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; ACUTE DISEASE; ANALGESIA; BLOOD; INCIDENCE; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; THORAX; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADMINISTRATION, INTRAVENOUS; ADULT; ANALGESIA, EPIDURAL; ANALGESICS; CHRONIC PAIN; COUGH; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERALGESIA; INCIDENCE; KETAMINE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN MANAGEMENT; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; THORACOTOMY; THORAX; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84900544850     PISSN: 07498047     EISSN: 15365409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AJP.0000000000000005     Document Type: Article

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