Interventions for postoperative pain in children: An overview of systematic reviews

Paediatric Anaesthesia

Volumn 27, Issue 9, 2017, Pages 893-904

  Boric, Krste ^a   Dosenovic, Svjetlana ^b   Jelicic Kadic, Antonia ^b   Batinic, Marijan ^a   Cavar, Marija ^b   Urlic, Marjan ^b   Markovina, Nikolina ^a   Puljak, Livia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SPLIT   (Croatia)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SPLIT   (Croatia)

Author keywords

analgesia; child; methods; pain management; postoperative pain; review

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANESTHETIC AGENT; BUPIVACAINE; CLONIDINE; CORTICOSTEROID; DEXMEDETOMIDINE; DICLOFENAC; FENTANYL; KETAMINE; LEVOBUPIVACAINE; LIDOCAINE; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; MIDAZOLAM; MORPHINE; MOUTHWASH; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT; NEOSTIGMINE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OPIATE DERIVATIVE; PARACETAMOL; PARECOXIB; PLACEBO; PRILOCAINE; PROPACETAMOL; ROPIVACAINE; TRAMADOL;

AEROSOL; CAUDAL ANESTHESIA; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; EPIDURAL ANALGESIA; HUMAN; MUSIC THERAPY; POSTOPERATIVE ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; SUPPOSITORY; SUSPENSION; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THERAPY EFFECT; TRANSVERSUS ABDOMINIS PLANE BLOCK; CHILD; LITERATURE; PEDIATRICS; PROCEDURES;

CHILD; HUMANS; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PEDIATRICS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC;

EID: 85023629552     PISSN: 11555645     EISSN: 14609592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/pan.13203     Document Type: Review

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