Oral analgesia for relieving post-caesarean pain

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2015, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Mkontwana, Nondumiso ^a   Novikova, Natalia ^a  

^a WALTER SISULU UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; CELECOXIB; COCODAMOL; DEXTROPROPOXYPHENE PLUS PARACETAMOL; GABAPENTIN; IBUPROFEN; KETOPROFEN; NAPROXEN; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT; PARACETAMOL; PLACEBO; TRAMADOL;

BREAST FEEDING; CESAREAN SECTION; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DROWSINESS; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG SAFETY; HEALTH CARE COST; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; LOW DRUG DOSE; META ANALYSIS; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; NAUSEA; POSTNATAL DEPRESSION; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RELIABILITY; REVIEW; SIDE EFFECT; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; UNCERTAINTY; VOMITING; ADULT; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ANALGESIA; DRUG COMBINATION; FEMALE; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PREGNANCY; PROCEDURES;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ADULT; ANALGESIA; ANALGESICS, NON-NARCOTIC; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; CESAREAN SECTION; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PREGNANCY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84942745822     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1469493X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD010450.pub2     Document Type: Review

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