Adding sufentanil to levobupivacaine or ropivacaine intrathecal anaesthesia affects the minimum local anaesthetic dose required

Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica

Volumn 53, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1214-1220

  Parpaglioni, R ^a,b   Baldassini, B ^a   Barbati, G ^b   Celleno, D ^a  

^a Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care ^*  (Italy)

^b FATEBENEFRATELLI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPHEDRINE; LEVOBUPIVACAINE; NAROPINA; ROPIVACAINE; SUFENTANIL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRADYCARDIA; CESAREAN SECTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; NAUSEA; NERVE BLOCK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SHIVERING; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; VOMITING;

ADULT; AMIDES; ANESTHESIA RECOVERY PERIOD; ANESTHESIA, OBSTETRICAL; ANESTHESIA, SPINAL; ANESTHETICS, INTRAVENOUS; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; BUPIVACAINE; CESAREAN SECTION; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; PAIN MEASUREMENT; POSTOPERATIVE NAUSEA AND VOMITING; PREGNANCY; SUFENTANIL;

EID: 69949129718     PISSN: 00015172     EISSN: 13996576     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-6576.2009.02033.x     Document Type: Article

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