Analgesic efficacy and outcome of transversus-abdominis plane block versus low thoracic-epidural analgesia after laparotomy in ischemic heart disease patients

Journal of Anesthesia

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 517-523

  Wahba, Sherif Samir ^a   Kamal, Sahar Mohammed ^a  

^a AIN SHAMS UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Epidural analgesia; TAP block; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

MORPHINE; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT;

ABDOMINAL WALL MUSCULATURE; ADULT; AGED; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPLICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE BLOCK; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PATIENT CONTROLLED ANALGESIA; PROCEDURES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

ABDOMINAL MUSCLES; ADULT; AGED; ANALGESIA, EPIDURAL; ANALGESIA, PATIENT-CONTROLLED; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORPHINE; NERVE BLOCK; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE;

EID: 84905906898     PISSN: 09138668     EISSN: 14388359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00540-013-1774-6     Document Type: Article

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