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Article: Delivering pain relief with less side effects. (drug ropivacaine provides pain relief without limiting mobility or coordination)(Brief Article)
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- USA TODAY
- Article date:
- February 1, 1998
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The drug ropivacaine currently is being used to control a patient's pain following surgery or may be given with an epidural block to a pregnant woman for pain relief during labor because it does not inhibit movement as much as other local anesthetics. Despite local anesthetics' ability to relieve pain, they are not long-lasting, and there is a tendency for them to affect a person's mobility and coordination. Ropivacaine greatly reduces this side effect and can provide pain relief for three to four hours after a single dose, explains F. Kayser Enneking, an anesthesiologist at the University of Florida College of Medicine in Gainesville. When administered slowly and ...
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