Thoracic epidural analgesia reduces myocardial injury in ischemic patients undergoing major abdominal cancer surgery

Journal of Pain Research

Volumn 10, Issue , 2017, Pages 887-895

  Mohamad, Mohamad Farouk ^a   Mohammad, Montaser A ^a   Hetta, Diab F ^a   Ahmed, Eman Hasan ^a   Obiedallah, Ahmed A ^b   Elzohry, Alaa Ali M ^a  

^a ASSIUT UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b Assiut University Faculty of Medicine   (Egypt)

Author keywords

PCA; Postoperative myocardial infarction; Thoracic epidural analgesia

Indexed keywords

BUPIVACAINE; FENTANYL; TROPONIN I;

ABDOMINAL CANCER; ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ADULT; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EPIDURAL ANALGESIA; FEMALE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HEART ARREST; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART FAILURE; HEART MUSCLE INJURY; HEART RATE; HEMODYNAMICS; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMAN; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; PATIENT CONTROLLED ANALGESIA; PATIENT CONTROLLED EPIDURAL ANALGESIA; PATIENT CONTROLLED INTRAVENOUS ANALGESIA; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PEROPERATIVE CARE; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

EID: 85018519340     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11787090     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/JPR.S122918     Document Type: Article

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