Addition of Lidocaine to Levobupivacaine Reduces Intrathecal Block Duration

Phase 4 Completed 40 enrolled Diskapi Teaching and Research Hospital

RandomizedParallel-groupDouble-blindTreatment

Summary

The main objective was to test the hypothesis that adding lidocaine to hyperbaric levobupivacaine could change the duration of levobupivacaine spinal block.

Timeline

Start: 2009-07
Primary completion: 2011-07
Completion: 2011-07

Publications

Background Lee SJ, Bai SJ, Lee JS, Kim WO, Shin YS, Lee KY. The duration of intrathecal bupivacaine mixed with lidocaine. Anesth Analg. 2008 Sep;107(3):824-7. doi: 10.1213/ane.0b013e3181806149.

Drugs

Evaluation	Drug	Modality	Dose	Route
Subject	Levobupivacaine	Other / unclassified	6.75 mg	Intrathecal
Subject	Lidocaine	Other / unclassified	2 %	Intrathecal

Addition of Lidocaine to Levobupivacaine Reduces Intrathecal Block Duration

Summary

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