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Pain management and pulmonary dysfunction
1Department of Anesthesiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA. PANKAJ.DESAI@CCC.UAB.EDU
Critical Care Clinics
|February 4, 1999
Abstract:
This article examines the extent to which pain contributes to pulmonary dysfunction in burns, trauma, a variety of acute abdominal diseases, and postoperatively. Also discussed are the options available to attenuate the extent of this contribution.