Magyar sebészet
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Clinical Trial Controlled Clinical Trial
[Continuous postoperative epidural analgesia in abdominal surgery using ropivacain].
We studied the selective block on patients receiving epidural Ropivacain (R) infusion for postoperative analgesia after major abdominal surgery. Twenty patients received R and twenty patients received Bupivacain (B) via peridural catheter during and after surgery. The patients' age ranged between 40 and 80 and they belonged to ASA I, II and III risk group. ⋯ The infusion rate was often decreased because of the unwanted motor block caused by 0.25% B leading to insufficient postoperative analgesia. Because of this fact patients receiving B required opioid addition more often. Our conclusion is that R/B relative dose ratio is 1.2 suggesting that these local anaesthetics have different analgesic potency.