A Comparative Study to Evaluate the Efficacy of Butorphanol as an Adjuvant to Epidural Analgesia for Rib Fractures

Introduction: Pain management via epidural catheters have emerged as an optimal method of pain control in patients with rib fractures (RF). This study was done to evaluate the efficacy of butorphanol in this subset of patients. Materials and methods: Sixty patients were randomly allocated...

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Main Authors: Virendrakumar R Belekar Associate Professor, Vaibhav Jain Consultant
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Thieme Medical and Scientific Publishers Pvt. Ltd. 2017-12-01
Series:International Journal of Recent Surgical and Medical Sciences
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Online Access:http://www.thieme-connect.de/DOI/DOI?10.5005/jp-journals-10053-0049