The Ceylon medical journal
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Randomized Controlled Trial
Efficacy of intra-articular dexmedetomidine for postoperative analgesia in arthroscopic knee surgery.
Various drugs are administered intraarticularly to provide postoperative analgesia after arthroscopic knee surgery, of which opioids and alpha2 agonists could be of particular interest. ⋯ Dexmedetomidine, added as adjunct to ropivacaine in patients undergoing arthroscopic knee surgery, improve the quality and duration of postoperative analgesia.