INTRODUCTION: Various adjuvants to local anesthetics are used in spinal anesthesia for improving the quality and prolonging postoperative analgesia. We aim to compare the analgesic efficacy of morphine or dexmedetomidine given intrathecally as adjuva...
INTRODUCTION: Surgical stress is the systemic response to surgical injury. Analyzing these surgical stress responses and pharmacologically modulating them can be of immense use to an anesthetist for optimal patient care.
BACKGROUND: Dexmedetomidine and magnesium sulfate (MgSO) as an adjuvant to local anesthetics and ultrasound guidance improves the quality of peripheral nerve block.
BACKGROUND: Periarticular infiltration (PAI) analgesia has been found to be an effective analgesia modality after total knee arthroplasty (TKA). Dexmedetomidine has many beneficial effects on postoperative analgesia by different routes, but studies o...
BACKGROUND AND AIMS: The addition of dexmedetomidine to spinal anesthesia decreases the incidence of tourniquet pain but may aggravate hypotension after tourniquet deflation.
BACKGROUND: Spinal anesthesia is a safe, reliable, and inexpensive technique with the advantage of providing surgical anesthesia and prolonged postoperative pain relief, and it also blunts autonomic, somatic, and endocrine responses to surgical stimu...
BACKGROUND: With increasing focus on outpatient care, there has been an increased demand for short-acting spinal anesthetics, facilitating early recovery and mobilization of the patient.