Regional anesthesia and pain medicine
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Reg Anesth Pain Med · Jan 2004
Editorial CommentContinuous perineural infusions at home: narrowing the focus.
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Reg Anesth Pain Med · Jan 2004
Randomized Controlled Trial Clinical TrialEfficacy of three doses of ketamine with bupivacaine for caudal analgesia in pediatric inguinal herniotomy.
Ketamine administered systemically is a potent analgesic at subanesthetic plasma concentrations. Addition of ketamine to bupivacaine for caudal epidural block significantly prolongs the duration of postoperative analgesia. The purpose of this prospective, randomized double-blind study is to identify the optimal dose of ketamine that produces the maximum duration of caudal analgesia with minimal adverse effects as an adjuvant to bupivacaine for caudal epidural block. ⋯ The optimal dose of ketamine in our study was 0.5 mg/kg added to 0.75 mL/kg bupivacaine 0.25% for caudal epidural block without an increase in side effects.