Spinal analgesia using 05% plain bupivacine

Plain bupivacaine: 0.5% or 0.25% for spinal analgesia?

Plain 0.5% bupivacaine 3 ml was compared with plain 0.25% bupivacaine 6 ml for spinal anaesthesia during transurethral surgery in 40 patients. The solutions were injected over 30 s at the L3/4 space with the patient in the sitting position. The patient was kept sitting for 2 min, supine for 5 min and then placed in the lithotomy position. No significant differences were found in onset time, ext...

Intrathecal labor analgesia by using bupivacine alone or combined with fentanyl, midazolam or clonidine

Background The Intrathecal analgesia is a highly effective technique for pain relief in the first stage of labor. Its effectiveness, simplicity, and low incidence of serious complications, less motor blockade and decrease the rate of cesarean section, make it applicable to the physicians Methods: one hundred twenty patients were equally divided into four groups where epidural catheter was inser...

Spinal Analgesia

cause was obvious. I failed to get the C. S. fluid to run out rapidly. It came out in very slow drops. I ought to have made a fresh puncture, but wished to try if it were possible to get analgesia under such conditions. Case 17 might be regarded as a failure, but in this case the man confessed next day he never felt any pain, and made a fuss merely because he had not got "gas" to inhale and dre...

Spinal Analgesia

Planocaine in Spinal Analgesia

To the Editor, The Indian Medical Gazette Sir,?In reply to Mr. Surti's letter in the February issue of the Indian Medical Gazette, we have to say that we have used one per cent planocaine solution for spinal analgesia for the last two years for all operations, both major and minor, with such good results that in not a single instance has there been a failure in anaesthesia. Regarding the use of...