Pain management in the intensive care unit: Do we need special protocols?

Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 237-238

  Hajiesmaeili, Mohammad Reza ^a,b   Safari, Saeid ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b SHAHID SADOUGHI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Analgesia; Intensive Care Unit; Pain

Indexed keywords

EID: 84900809783     PISSN: 22287523     EISSN: 22287531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5812/AAPM.4523     Document Type: Editorial

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