A comparison of spinal anesthesia with low-dose hyperbaric levobupivacaine and hyperbaric bupivacaine for transurethral surgery: A randomized controlled trial

Minerva Anestesiologica

Volumn 76, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 992-1001

  Erbay, R Hakan ^a   Ermumcu, O ^a   Hanci, V ^b   Atalay, H ^a  

^a PAMUKKALE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b ZONGULDAK KARAELMAS UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Anesthesia, Spinal; Hyperbaric levopubivacaine; Transurethral procedures

Indexed keywords

BUPIVACAINE; EPHEDRINE; FENTANYL; LEVOBUPIVACAINE;

ADULT; ADVERSE OUTCOME; AGED; ANESTHESIA COMPLICATION; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ANESTHETIC RECOVERY; ARTICLE; DERMATOME; DOSE RESPONSE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG QUALITY; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LOW DRUG DOSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTOR NERVE BLOCK; NAUSEA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRURITUS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SPINAL ANESTHESIA; TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION; VOMITING;

ADJUVANTS, ANESTHESIA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANESTHESIA, SPINAL; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; BUPIVACAINE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FENTANYL; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION OF PROSTATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78651257375     PISSN: 03759393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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