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neuroleptoanalgesia

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neuroleptoanalgesia

[‚nu̇r·ō‚lep·tō‚an·ə′jē·zhə]
(medicine)
A state of analgesic consciousness produced by the administration of neuroleptic drugs, allowing painless surgery to be performed on a wakeful subject.
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On the 14th postoperative day, the urinary catheters were withdrawn from all animals following neuroleptoanalgesia using a mixture of morphine (0.3mg [kg.sup.-1]) and midazolam (0.1mg [kg.sup.-1]) intramuscularly.
Neuroleptoanalgesia was performed with intramuscular injection of a mixture of tramadol (2mg [kg.sup.-1]) and chlorpromazine chloride (1mg [kg.sup.-1]).
A neuroleptoanalgesia e um estado de depressao do sistema nervoso central e analgesia produzido pela associacao de um agente neuroleptico a um opioide (BREARLEY, 1994), resultando em analgesia, sedacao, manutencao da estabilidade autonomica, neurologica e cardiovascular (BISSONNETTE et al., 1999).
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