Low-dose bupivacaine-fentanyl spinal anesthesia for cesarean delivery
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Low-dose bupivacaine-fentanyl spinal anesthesia for cesarean delivery
Abstract
Background and objectives: The hypotension following spinal anesthesia remains commonplace in cesarean delivery. Intrathecal opioids are synergistic with local anesthetics and intensify sensory block without increasing sympathetic block. The combination makes it possible to achieve spinal anesthesia with otherwise inadequate doses of local anesthetic. We hypothesized that this phenomenon could be used to provide spinal anesthesia for cesarean delivery while incurring less frequent hypotension.
Methods: Thirty-two women scheduled for cesarean delivery were divided into 2 groups of patients who received a spinal injection of either 10 mg of isobaric (plain) bupivacaine 0.5% or 5 mg of isobaric bupivacaine with 25 microg fentanyl added. Each measurement of a systolic blood pressure less than 95 mm Hg or a decrease in systolic pressure of greater than 25% from baseline was considered as hypotension and treated with a bolus of 5 to 10 mg of intravenous ephedrine.
Results: Spinal block provided surgical anesthesia in all patients. Peak sensory level was higher (T3 v T4. 5) and motor block more intense in the plain bupivacaine group. The plain bupivacaine patients were more likely to require treatment for hypotension (94% v 31%) and had more persistent hypotension (4.8 v 0.6 hypotensive measurements per patient) than patients in the minidose bupivacaine-fentanyl group. Mean ephedrine requirements were 23.8 mg and 2.8 mg, respectively, for the 2 groups. Patients in the plain bupivacaine group also complained of nausea more frequently than patients in the minidose bupivacaine-fentanyl group (69% v 31%).
Conclusions: Bupivacaine 5 mg + fentanyl 25 microg provided spinal anesthesia for cesarean delivery with less hypotension, vasopressor requirements, and nausea than spinal anesthesia with 10 mg bupivacaine.
Comment in
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Low-dose spinal anesthesia for cesarean delivery: Have we gone too far?Reg Anesth Pain Med. 2001 Mar-Apr;26(2):180-2. doi: 10.1053/rapm.2001.20380. Reg Anesth Pain Med. 2001. PMID: 11251150 No abstract available.
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