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Article: Buprenorphine added to the local anesthetic for brachial plexus block to provide postoperative analgesia in outpatients
- Article from:
- Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine
- Article date:
- July 1, 2001
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CopyrightCopyright Churchill Livingstone Inc., Medical Publishers Jul/Aug 2001. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Background and Objectives: Over the past 10 years, several studies have suggested that the addition of certain opiates to the local anesthetic used for brachial block may provide effective, long-lasting postoperative analgesia. One of these studies indicated that the agonist-antagonist, buprenorphine, added to bupivacaine provided a longer period of postoperative analgesia than the traditional opiates, but in this study, it is impossible to determine the relative contributions of the local anesthetic and the opiate to the postoperative analgesia because of the extremely long duration of the anesthesia provided by the local anesthetic, bupivacaine. By repeating the study using a local ...