The median effective dose of intrathecal hyperbaric bupivacaine is larger in the single-shot spinal as compared with the combined spinal-epidural technique

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 100, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1499-1502

  Goy, Raymond Wee Lip ^a,b   Chee Seng, Yoong ^a   Sia, Alex Tiong Heng ^a   Choo Kok, Koay ^a   Liang, Shen ^a  

^a CHANGI GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUPIVACAINE;

ADULT; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMATOME; DOSE RESPONSE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; EPIDURAL SPACE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUMBAR SPINE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SPINAL ANESTHESIA; THORACIC SPINE; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; ANESTHESIA, EPIDURAL; ANESTHESIA, SPINAL; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; BUPIVACAINE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 17744389624     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ANE.0000150941.84786.38     Document Type: Article

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