Epinephrine Does Not Prolong the Analgesia of 20 mL Ropivacaine 0.5% or 0.2% in a Femoral Three-In-One Block

Autor: A. Weber, Roxane Fournier, Zdravko Gamulin, Elisabeth Van Gessel, Nicolas Gabriel Riand
Rok vydání: 2001
Předmět:
Male
Nerve Block/methods
medicine.medical_treatment
Prosthesis
Bolus (medicine)
Acetaminophen/administration & dosage
Medicine
Drug Interactions
Ropivacaine
Analgesics
Non-Narcotic/administration & dosage

Anesthetics
Local

Arthroplasty
Replacement
Knee

ddc:617
Analgesics
Opioid/administration & dosage

Morphine
Nerve Block
Analgesics
Non-Narcotic

Epinephrine/pharmacology
Sciatic Nerve
Analgesics
Opioid

Epinephrine
Anesthesia
Female
medicine.symptom
Femoral Nerve
medicine.drug
medicine.medical_specialty
Anesthesia
General

Double-Blind Method
Femoral nerve
ddc:610/370
Anesthetics
Local/pharmacology

Humans
Amides/pharmacology
Acetaminophen
Aged
Bupivacaine
Dose-Response Relationship
Drug

business.industry
Anesthesia
General/methods

Analgesia
Patient-Controlled

Amides
Arthroplasty
Surgery
Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine
Knee pain
Femoral Nerve/drug effects
Morphine/administration & dosage
Sciatic Nerve/drug effects
business
Zdroj: Anesthesia and Analgesia, Vol. 93, No 5 (2001) pp. 1327-31
ISSN: 0003-2999
DOI: 10.1097/00000539-200111000-00060
Popis: We tested the effect of epinephrine added to 20 mL ropivacaine 0.5% and 0.2% on postoperative analgesia via a femoral catheter after total knee replacement. Forty-one patients undergoing total knee replacement under combined peripheral block/general anesthesia were randomly allocated to two groups. After insertion of a femoral catheter, 21 patients in the Ropivacaine-Epinephrine (ROPI-EPI) group received 20 mL ropivacaine 0.5% plus epinephrine 1:200,000, whereas 20 patients in the Ropivacaine group (ROPI) received 20 mL plain ropivacaine 0.5%. Thereafter, a sciatic block with 30 mL bupivacaine 0.5% plus epinephrine 1:200,000 was performed in all patients, followed by general anesthesia. After surgery, patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) with ropivacaine 0.2% plus epinephrine 1:200,000 for Group ROPI-EPI and plain ropivacaine 0.2% for Group ROPI was available via the femoral catheter (200 mL ropivacaine 0.2% +/- epinephrine, bolus 20 mL, lockout 120 min). The patients were instructed to use PCA when the knee pain score was3 cm. The interval between the initial ropivacaine injection and the first PCA injection determined the duration of 20 mL ropivacaine 0.5% +/- epinephrine, whereas the interval between the first and second PCA injection determined the duration of 20 mL ropivacaine 0.2% +/- epinephrine. The average duration of ropivacaine 0.5% was 657 +/- 345 min for the ROPI-EPI group and 718 +/- 423 min for the ROPI group (NS), whereas for ropivacaine 0.2%, the average duration was 409 +/- 245 min for the ROPI-EPI group and 419 +/- 339 min for the ROPI group (not significant). We conclude that epinephrine does not influence the duration of analgesia of the ropivacaine concentrations investigated.We evaluated the effect of epinephrine on the duration of analgesia of 20 mL ropivacaine 0.5% or 0.2% injected in femoral three-in-one block for pain relief after total knee replacement. Our results show that epinephrine does not alter the duration of analgesia of the two solutions investigated.
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