Regional anesthesia
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Regional anesthesia · Jul 1997
Case ReportsBilateral fascia iliaca catheters for postoperative pain control after bilateral total knee arthroplasty: a case report and description of a catheter technique.
The pain following total knee arthroplasty can be associated with significant morbidity, especially in the elderly. Regional anesthetic techniques attenuate or eliminate postoperative pain, which may reduce this morbidity. ⋯ Lumbar plexus blockade with continuous local anesthetic infusion via the fascia iliaca compartment is an effective means of providing postoperative analgesia after total knee arthroplasty when epidural analgesia is contraindicated.
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Regional anesthesia · Jul 1997
Randomized Controlled Trial Clinical TrialAddition of morphine to intra-articular bupivacaine does not improve analgesia following knee joint replacement.
In an effort to further decrease postoperative opioid requirements and improve analgesia in patients undergoing elective knee joint replacement, a study was made of the effectiveness of adding morphine to an intra-articular bupivacaine injection given immediately following surgery. ⋯ The addition of 1 mg morphine to an intra-articular injection of 30 mL 0.5% bupivacaine with 1:200,000 epinephrine given at wound closure does not improve analgesia in patients undergoing elective knee joint replacement.
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Regional anesthesia · Jul 1997
Randomized Controlled Trial Clinical TrialBack pain following epidural anesthesia with 2-chloroprocaine (EDTA-free) or lidocaine.
Severe lumbar pain following epidural injection of 2-chloroprocaine is usually associated with the Nesacaine-MPF solution available in the United States. The purpose of this study was to determine if the solution distributed in Canada (Nesacaine-CE), which contains calcium disodium edetate (0.1 mg/mL) and sodium bisulfite (0.7 mg/mL) but no disodium ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid, is associated with back pain or spasm when compared with epidural lidocaine. ⋯ No cases of severe backache were observed. However, epidural Nesacaine-CE 3% was associated with mild back pain, generally confined to the area of needle insertion, when compared with lidocaine 1.33%.
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Regional anesthesia · Jul 1997
Randomized Controlled Trial Clinical TrialSympathetic block during spinal anesthesia in volunteers using lidocaine, tetracaine, and bupivacaine.
Spinal anesthesia to high thoracic dermatomes is alleged to result in almost complete block of all sympathetic efferent nerves. To examine the degree of sympathectomy during spinal anesthesia, the sympathetic response to a cold pressor test (CPT) applied to unblocked dermatomes before and during spinal anesthesia was measured with use of three different local anesthetics. ⋯ Spinal anesthesia with hyperbaric solutions of tetracaine 15 mg, bupivacaine 15 mg, and lidocaine 100 mg attenuated sympathetic function but did not produce complete sympathectomy. The effects were independent of the local anesthetic used.
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Regional anesthesia · Jul 1997
Comparative StudyIntraneural lidocaine uptake compared with analgesic differences between pregnant and nonpregnant rats.
Pregnant patients need less local anesthetic in order to obtain the same quality of functional block as nonpregnant patients. Our goal was to demonstrate a similarly increased functional susceptibility to local anesthetics in the awake pregnant rat during peripheral nerve block and to investigate the pharmacokinetic and/or pharmacodynamic mechanisms responsible for this phenomenon. ⋯ Block of peripheral neural function is prolonged in pregnant rats, and lidocaine content in the nerve is lower at a specific stage of neural block. These results are consistent with a pharmacodynamic mechanism for increased susceptibility to lidocaine neural block during pregnancy.