Synergistic effect of intrathecal fentanyl and bupivacaine in spinal anesthesia for cesarean section

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Potentiating the effect of intrathecal local anesthetics by addition of intrathecal opiods for intra-abdominal surgeries is known. In this study by addition of fentanyl we tried to minimize the dose of bupivacaine, thereby reducing t...

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Main Authors: Srivastava Pratima, Arora Namita, Bogra Jaishri
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2005-05-01
Series:BMC Anesthesiology
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2253/5/5