0.2% Ropivacaine and levobupivacaine provide equally effective epidural labour analgesia

Canadian Journal of Anesthesia

Volumn 51, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 918-922

  Supandji, Mia ^a   Sia, Alex T H ^a   Ocampo, Cecilia E ^a  

^a KK WOMEN'S AND CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEVOBUPIVACAINE; ROPIVACAINE;

ADULT; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; COLD SENSATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFICACY; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LABOR PAIN; NERVE BLOCK; NORMAL HUMAN; NULLIPARA; OBSTETRIC ANALGESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; SCORING SYSTEM; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTERINE CERVIX DILATATION; UTERUS CONTRACTION; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

EID: 12344265086     PISSN: 0832610X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03018891     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. Santos AC, Arthur GR, Wlody D, De Armas P, Morishima HO, Finster M. Comparative systemic toxicity of ropivacaine and bupivacaine in non-pregnant and pregnant ewes. Anesthesiology 1995; 82: 734-40.
2. Knudsen K, Suurkula MB, Blomberg S, Sjovall J, Edvardsson N. Central nervous and cardiovascular effects of i.v. infusions of ropivacaine, bupivacaine and placebo in volunteers. Br J Anaesth 1997; 78: 507-14.
3. Huang YF, Pryor ME, Mather LE, Veering BT. Cardiovascular and central nervous system effects of intravenous levobupivacaine and bupivacaine in sheep. Anesth Analg 1998; 86: 797-804.
4. Morrison SG, Dominguez JJ, Frascarolo P, Reiz S. A comparison of the electrocardiographic cardiotoxic effects of racemic bupivacaine, levobupivacaine, and ropivacaine in anesthetized swine. Anesth Analg 2000; 90: 1308-14.
5. Stienstra R, Jonker TA, Bourdrez P, Kuijpers JC, van Kleef JW, Lundberg U. Ropivacaine 0.25% versus bupivacaine 0.25% for continuous epidural analgesia in labor: a double-blind comparison. Anesth Analg 1995; 80: 285-9.
6. Eddleston JM, Holland JJ, Griffin RP, Corbett A, Horsman EL, Reynolds F. A double-blind comparison of 0.25% ropivacaine and 0.25% bupivacaine for extradural analgesia in labour. Br J Anaesth 1996; 76: 66-71.
7. Polley LS, Columb MO, Naughton NN, Wagner DS, van de Ven CJ. Relative analgesic potencies of ropivacaine and bupivacaine for epidural analgesia in labor: implications for therapeutic indexes. Anesthesiology 1999; 90: 944-50.
8. Capogna G, Celleno D, Fusco P, Lyons G, Columb, M. Relative potencies of bupivacaine and ropivacaine for analgesia in labour. Br J Anaesth 1999; 82: 371-3.
9. McLeod GA, Burke D. Levobupivacaine. Anaesthesia 2001; 56: 331-41.
10. Lyons G, Columb M, Wilson RC, Johnson RV. Epidural pain relief in labour: potencies of levobupivacaine and racemic bupivacaine. Br J Anaesth 1998; 81: 899-901.
11. Polley LS, Columb MO, Naughton NN, Wagner DS, van de Ven CJ, Goralski KH. Relative analgesic potencies of levobupivacaine and ropivacaine for epidural analgesia in labor. Anesthesiology 2003; 99: 1354-8.
12. Benhamou D, Ghosh C, Mercier FJ. A randomized sequential allocation study to determine the minimum effective analgesic concentration of levobupivacaine and ropivacaine in patients receiving epidural analgesia for labor. Anesthesiology 2003; 99: 1383-6.
13. Owen MD, Thomas JA, Smith T, Harris LC, DAngelo R. Ropivacaine 0.075% and bupivacaine 0.075% with fentanyl 2 μg/mL are equivalent for labor epidural analgesia. Anesth Analg 2002; 94: 179-83.
14. Owen MD, D'Angelo R, Gerancher JC, et al. 0.125% ropivacaine is similar to 0.125% bupivacaine for labor analgesia using patient controlled epidural infusion. Anesth Analg 1998; 86: 527-31.
15. D'Angelo R, James RL. Is ropivacaine less potent than bupivacaine? (Editorial). Anesthesiology 1999; 90: 941-3.
16. Beilin Y, Galea M, Zahn J, Bodian CA. Epidural ropivacaine for the initiation of labor epidural analgesia: a dose finding study. Anesth Analg 1999; 88: 1340-5.
17. Schug SA. Correction factor for comparisons between levobupivacaine and racemic bupivacaine (Letter). Reg Anesth Pain Med 2001; 26: 91.