Acute Pain
Volume 8, Issue 1 , Pages 13-21 , March 2006

Pre-packed take-home analgesics in ambulatory surgery

  • Johanna B. Lindahl

      Affiliations

    • Hospital Pharmacy, Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge, Stockholm, Sweden
    • ,
  • Per Nydert

      Affiliations

    • Hospital Pharmacy, Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge, Stockholm, Sweden
    • ,
  • Kajsa Giesecke

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge, Stockholm, Sweden
    • Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Södertälje Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
    • ,
  • Peter M. Persson

      Affiliations

    • Hospital Pharmacy, Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge, Stockholm, Sweden
    • ,
  • Tomas Movin

      Affiliations

    • Orthopedic Surgery, Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge, Stockholm, Sweden
    • ,
  • Märta Segerdahl

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge, Stockholm, Sweden
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Department of Clinical Science and Intervention Technology, Unit for Anaesthesia, Karolinska Institute at Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge, 141 86 Stockholm, Sweden. Tel.: +46 8 5858 6396; fax: +46 8 779 54 24.

Received 1 November 2005 ,Revised 1 December 2005 ,Accepted 6 January 2006.

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PII: S1366-0071(06)00002-7

doi: 10.1016/j.acpain.2006.01.001

Acute Pain
Volume 8, Issue 1 , Pages 13-21 , March 2006

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