Open AccessEpinephrine 4 μg/mL Added to a Low-Dose Mixture of Ropivacaine and Fentanyl for Lumbar Epidural Analgesia After Total Knee Arthroplasty
Author(s) -
J. G. Förster,
Hilkka M Lumme,
Vilja J. Palkama,
P. H. Rosenberg,
M. Pitkänen
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
anesthesia and analgesia/anesthesia and analgesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.404
H-Index - 201
eISSN - 1526-7598
pISSN - 0003-2999
DOI - 10.1213/01.ane.0000287673.27439.19
Subject(s) - medicine , ropivacaine , fentanyl , anesthesia , total knee arthroplasty , epinephrine , lumbar , arthroplasty , surgery
Epinephrine 2 microg/mL added to a local anesthetic-opioid mixture has been found to improve postoperative continuous epidural analgesia at the thoracic (TEA) but not at lumbar (LEA) level. Therefore, we studied whether a higher dose of epinephrine could improve LEA.