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Postoperative analgesia after inguinal hernia repair - Comparison of ropivacaine with bupivacaine: A randomized controlled trial.

Suman Lata Gupta, Prasanna Udupi Bidkar, S Adinarayanan, M V S Satya Prakash, L Aswini

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Article in Anesthesia, essays and researches. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Suman Lata GuptaDepartment of Anaesthesiology and CC, JIPMER, Puducherry, India.
Prasanna Udupi BidkarDepartment of Anaesthesiology and CC, JIPMER, Puducherry, India.
S AdinarayananDepartment of Anaesthesiology and CC, JIPMER, Puducherry, India.
M V S Satya PrakashDepartment of Anaesthesiology and CC, JIPMER, Puducherry, India.
L AswiniDepartment of Anaesthesiology and CC, JIPMER, Puducherry, India.
Jawaharlal Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research · IN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundPostoperative pain management by surgical site infiltration has an edge over other methods of analgesia as it is simple and has lesser side effects. This study was designed to compare the analgesic effects provided by bupivacaine, a classical long-acting local anesthetic and ropivacaine, a new amino amide local anesthetic agent. SUBJECTS AND

methodsNinety patients scheduled for elective inguinal herniorrhaphy were randomly allocated to one of the three groups: Group I - R 0.5, group II - R 0.25, and group III - B 0.25. General anesthesia was given. The surgical site was infiltrated before incision with 20 ml of drugs - ropivacaine 0.5% in group I, ropivacaine 0.25% in group II, bupivacaine 0.25% in group III. Intraoperatively hemodynamics were recorded every 15 min until the end of surgery and at the time of skin incision, at the time of cord pulling, and at the time of skin closure. Postoperatively, rest pain, pain on coughing, and pain on movements were assessed using visual analog scale (VAS) score immediately at the end of the surgery and hourly up to 4 h. The time of the first request for rescue analgesia was noted.

resultsVAS scores at rest, during coughing and movements were higher in group R 0.25 and the time of rescue analgesia was shorter with group R 0.25 when compared with other groups.

conclusionRopivacaine is less potent than bupivacaine at equal concentrations.

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Local infiltrationnerve blockpostoperative analgesiaropivacaine

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PMID26957694
PMCPMC4767096
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