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Department of Anesthesiology and Surgical Intensive Care 2, Université Rennes 1, Rennes, France
Address correspondence and reprints requests to Professeur Claude Ecoffey, Service dAneshésie-Réanimation Chirurgicale 2, Hôpital Pontchaillou, 35033 Rennes cedex 9, France. Address e-mail to cEcoffey.rennes{at}invivo.edu
IMPLICATIONS: We examined the effects of preoperative epidural morphine associated with general anesthesia on postoperative morphine requirements. Twenty-one children older than 6 yr scheduled for major surgery were randomly assigned to two groups, a control group and an epidural group that received a single epidural morphine injection.
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