Ropivacaine cardiac toxicity — not as troublesome as bupivacaine

Intrathecal anesthesia: ropivacaine versus bupivacaine.

We compared intrathecal ropivacaine to bupivacaine in patients scheduled for transurethral resection of bladder or prostate. Doses of ropivacaine and bupivacaine were chosen according to a 3:2 ratio found to be equipotent in orthopedic surgery. One hundred patients were randomly assigned to blindly receive either 10 mg of isobaric bupivacaine (0.2%, n = 50) or 15 mg of isobaric ropivacaine (0.3...

Ropivacaine and bupivacaine in obstetric analgesia.

Studies comparing the efficacy of epidural analgesia for labour have been limited by lack of knowledge about the relative potencies of the involved agents, whether alone or in combination. Recently a clinical model to determine the minimum local analgesic concentration has been developed [1]. This study design estimated the minimum local analgesic concentration or median effective concentration...

Extradural ropivacaine and bupivacaine in hip surgery

Extradural ropivacaine and bupivacaine in hip surgery

Extradural ropivacaine and bupivacaine in hip surgery