Antidepressant drugs for prevention of acute and chronic postsurgical pain early evidence and recommended future directions

Anesthesiology

Volumn 121, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 591-608

  Wong, Karen ^a   Phelan, Rachel ^a   Kalso, Eija ^b   Galvin, Imelda ^a   Goldstein, David ^a   Raja, Srinivasa ^c   Gilron, Ian ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; AMITRIPTYLINE; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; BICIFADINE; CODEINE; DESIPRAMINE; DULOXETINE; ESCITALOPRAM; FLUOXETINE; FLURADOLINE; PLACEBO; TRYPTOPHAN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VENLAFAXINE;

ARTICLE; CHRONIC PAIN; CONSTIPATION; DIARRHEA; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; LAMINECTOMY; MASTECTOMY; NAUSEA; PAIN INTENSITY; POSTOPERATIVE ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SEDATION; SHIVERING; SIDE EFFECT; SOMNOLENCE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TOOTH EXTRACTION; TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT; TREATMENT DURATION; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; ACUTE DISEASE; CHRONIC DISEASE; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; CHRONIC DISEASE; HUMANS; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84921666340     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: 15281175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ALN.0000000000000307     Document Type: Article

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