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Clonidine as an adjuvant to hyperbaric bupivacaine for spinal anesthesia in elderly patients undergoing lower limb orthopedic surgeries

BACKGROUND: In elderly patients, use of adjuvant with small doses of local anesthetics is a preferred technique for spinal anesthesia for lower limb surgeries. This study tested the hypothesis that addition of small doses of clonidine augments the spinal block levels produced by hyperbaric bupivacai...

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Autores principales: Agarwal, Deepti, Chopra, Manish, Mohta, Medha, Sethi, Ashok Kumar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4024678/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24843334
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1658-354X.130720