Post operative analgesia after caesarean section: an experience with intrathecal buprenorphine

Buprenorphine is a mixed agonist-antagonist narcotic with high affinity at both µ and k opiate receptors. The aim of the study was to compare intrathecal bupivacaine (0.5%) and buprenorphine (60µg) with bupivacaine (0.5%) for postoperative analgesia in caesarean section. Sixty parturients undergoing...

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Main Author: Sunil Dixit
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2007-01-01
Series:Indian Journal of Anaesthesia
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Online Access:http://www.ijaweb.org/article.asp?issn=0019-5049;year=2007;volume=51;issue=6;spage=515;epage=518;aulast=Dixit