Pain Management Nursing
Volume 11, Issue 3 , Pages 169-176 , September 2010

Low-Dose Ketamine via Intravenous Patient-Controlled Analgesia Device after Various Transthoracic Procedures Improves Analgesia and Patient and Family Satisfaction

Presented in part at the International Congress of the Israeli Society of Anesthesiologists, 2005, Tel Aviv, Israel.

  • Shoshana Chazan, RN

      Affiliations

    • Acute Pain Service, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center and Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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  • Inon Buda, MD

      Affiliations

    • Acute Pain Service, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center and Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
    • Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center and Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
    • ,
  • Nahum Nesher, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center and Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
    • ,
  • Joseph Paz, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center and Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
    • ,
  • Avi A. Weinbroum, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care Medicine, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center and Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
    • Post-Anesthesia Care Unit, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center and Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence to Avi A. Weinbroum, MD, Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Director, Post-Anesthesia Care Unit, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, 6 Weizman Street, Tel Aviv 64239, Israel.

Received 5 August 2008 ,Revised 10 June 2009 ,Accepted 10 June 2009.

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 The first two authors contributed equally to this work.

 Dr. Buda presented the reported data to the Sackler Faculty of Medicine Board of Examiners as part of his dissertation.

PII: S1524-9042(09)00068-X

doi: 10.1016/j.pmn.2009.06.003

Pain Management Nursing
Volume 11, Issue 3 , Pages 169-176 , September 2010

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