Open AccessBier′s block using lignocaine and butorphanol
Author(s) -
Aman Bansal,
Shikha Gupta,
Dinesh Sood,
Suneet Kathuria,
Anurag Tewari
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
journal of anaesthesiology-clinical pharmacology/journal of anaesthesiology clinical pharmacology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.466
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 2231-2730
pISSN - 0970-9185
DOI - 10.4103/0970-9185.86580
Subject(s) - medicine , butorphanol , analgesic , anesthesia , tourniquet , intravenous regional anesthesia , visual analogue scale , block (permutation group theory) , surgery , geometry , mathematics
Opioids are most commonly used as adjuncts in intravenous regional anesthesia (IVRA) to improve the quality of intraoperative and postoperative analgesia. There is paucity of literature on the use of butorphanol in IVRA.