Assessment of Efficacy of Midazolam as an Adjuvant to Intrathecal Bupivacaine for Lower Abdominal Surgeries

Dr. Kottam Surekha; Dr. Shaik Mohammed Ghiyazuddin1

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Publication Date: 2023/02/22

Abstract: Spinal anaesthesia is the most commonly used regional anaesthetic technique. Local anaesthetic agents used for this purpose provide good intraoperative analgesia. However, they provide a very limited postoperative duration of action. In order to overcome this problem and to maximise the duration of anaesthesia-analgesia, many adjuvants, such as intrathecal opioids and non-opioids, have increasingly been tried in the last two decades to relieve postoperative pain.  Aims & Objectives Bupivacaine when used alone produces analgesia for 2.5 to 3 hours, making it unsuitable in cases where the duration of surgery is longer and in cases which require further analgesia during post-operative period. Present study is intended to evaluate the effect of addition of intrathecal midazolam to bupivacaine to prolong the post-operative analgesia.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7664532

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