Pharmacological interventions for prevention or treatment of postoperative pain in people undergoing laparoscopic cholecystectomy

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2014, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Gurusamy, Kurinchi Selvan ^a   Vaughan, Jessica ^a   Toon, Clare D ^b   Davidson, Brian R ^a  

^a ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b WEST SUSSEX COUNTY COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CELECOXIB; DEXKETOPROFEN; DEZOCINE; DICLOFENAC; DIPYRONE; ETORICOXIB; FLURBIPROFEN AXETIL; GABAPENTIN; INDOMETACIN; KETOROLAC; KETOROLAC TROMETAMOL; LORNOXICAM; MELOXICAM; MORPHINE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OPIATE; OXYCODONE; PARACETAMOL; PARECOXIB; PREGABALIN; ROFECOXIB; TENOXICAM; TRAMADOL; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT;

DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC CHOLECYSTECTOMY; LENGTH OF STAY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; AMBULATORY SURGERY; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; META ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; PAIN ASSESSMENT; TIME;

AMBULATORY SURGICAL PROCEDURES; ANALGESICS; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; ANTICONVULSANTS; CHOLECYSTECTOMY, LAPAROSCOPIC; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84907405291     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1469493X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD008261.pub2     Document Type: Review

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