%0 Journal Article
%T Effect of adding clonidine to intrathecal bupivacaine on the quality of subarachnoid block: A prospective randomized double-blind study
%A Mastan Saheb Shaik
%A Nagendra Nath Vemuri
%A Srivishnu Vardhan Yallapragada
%J Archive of "Anesthesia, Essays and Researches".
%D 2016
%R 10.4103/0259-1162.176405
%X The purpose of adding an adjuvant to local anesthetic in a central neuraxial blockade is to augment the desirable pharmacological actions of the agent and/or to minimize its undesirable pharmacological effects. Clonidine is an alfa-2 receptor agonist which has gained popularity in recent times as an adjuvant in spinal anesthesia
%K Adjuvant
%K clonidine
%K hemodynamic stability
%K intrathecal
%K spinal anesthesia
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5062233/