A Comparative Study of Intrathecal Bupivacaine with Fentanyl versus Plain Bupivacaine in Elective Lower Segment Caesarean Section

Pregancy is a very stressful condition for every women. Most of them live in a fear of complications and the safety of the unborn baby. Many have lots of questions and confusions when it comes to surgery. Regional anaesthesia is the best choice for a elective lower segment caesarean section. Making sure that the pregnant women co-operates to perform a lumbar puncture to deliever the drugs is at most important to have a succesful spinal block. It is also very important to choose drugs which last for longer time and provide analgesia even after the surgery. The practice of adding additives to local anaesthetic agents is very come from decades. The best and the safest additive with very low complication is the one which doesn’t affect the degree of anaesthetic block and has very safe haemodynamic response. Fentanyl is a time tested drug and it is very safe as per the available litracure and can be safely given in pregnancy. In this comparative study we are going to compare the potentail of fentanyl and bupivacaine with bupivacaine alone when given intrathecally