%0 Journal Article
%T Single dose intravenous dexmedetomidine prolongs spinal anesthesia with hyperbaric bupivacaine
%A Anudeep Saxena
%A Ashish Sethi
%A Deeksha Bindal
%A Jyotsna Kubre
%A Mamta Mahobia
%A Neeraj Narang
%J Archive of "Anesthesia, Essays and Researches".
%D 2016
%R 10.4103/0259-1162.174465
%X Spinal block, a known technique to obtain anaesthesia for infraumblical surgeries. Now physician have advantage of using adjuvant to prolong the effect of intrathecal block, which can be given either intravenously or intrathecally, dexmedetomidine is one of them. We studied effect of intravenous dexmedetomidine for prolongation of duration of intrathecal block of 0.5% bupivacaine block
%K Intravenous dexmedetomidine
%K postoperative analgesia
%K sensory regression
%K spinal block
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4864683/