Equipotent dose regimens required when comparing epidural opioids

  • Joachim Chrubasik
  • Sigrun Chrubasik
  • Peter Glass
Article

Keywords

Morphine Fentanyl Epidural Morphine Postoperative Pain Relief Epidural Fentanyl 
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© Canadian Anesthesiologists 1993

Authors and Affiliations

  • Joachim Chrubasik
    • 1
  • Sigrun Chrubasik
    • 2
  • Peter Glass
    • 3
  1. 1.Department of AnaesthesiaUniversity HospitalHeidelberg
  2. 2.Department of Forensic MedicineUniversity of FreiburgFreiburg
  3. 3.Department of AnesthesiaDuke University Medical CenterDurham

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