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Comparison of the Analgesic Efficacy of a Single Dose of Epidural Dexmedetomidine versus Fentanyl as an Adjuvant to Bupivacaine in Abdominal Surgery

BACKGROUND: Fentanyl as an epidural additive act on spinal opioid receptors, while dexmedetomidine has selective alpha-2 receptor agonist action enhancing analgesic effects. AIMS: We aimed to compare the postoperative analgesic efficacy of single doses of dexmedetomidine against fentanyl as epidural...

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Autores principales: Sekhar, Durga Prasad, Kumar, Lakshmi, Kesavan, Rajesh, Purushottaman, Shyamsundar, Mohammed, Zubair Umer, Rajan, Sunil
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6775832/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31602062
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/aer.AER_102_19