Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 28, Issue 2 , Pages 151-158 , August 1996

Comparison of Intravenous Ketorolac, Meperidine, and Both (Balanced Analgesia) for Renal Colic

Presented at the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Annual Meeting, San Antonio, May 1995.

Received 13 November 1995 ,Revised 14 March 1996 ,Accepted 20 March 1996.

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☆ From the Emergency Medicine and Trauma Center* and the Department of Medical Research‡, Methodist Hospital of Indiana; the Department of Emergency Medicine, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee§; the Department of Medicine, Division of Emergency Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh∥; the Department of Emergency Medicine, Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina; and Roche Laboratories, Nutley, New Jersey.#

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★ Address for reprints: William H Cordell, MD, Emergency Medicine and Trauma Center, Methodist Hospital of Indiana, 1701 North Senate Boulevard, Indianapolis, Indiana 46202, 317-929-3088 Fax 317-929-2306, E-mail wcordell@mhi.com

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Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 28, Issue 2 , Pages 151-158 , August 1996

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