Comparative Evaluation of Caudal Fentanyl and Clonidine as Adjuvant to Bupivacaine for Post- Operative Analgesia in Pediatric Genitourinary and Inguinal Surgeries
Abstract:Post-operative analgesia in children is a challenging task before the anesthesiologist. Caudal analgesia is an accepted and popular method of providing intraoperative and postoperative analgesia for genitourinary and inguinal surgeries in children. Because of short duration of action of Bupivacaine, various adjuncts have been tried by many anesthesiologists. Fentanyl and Clonidine are used along with local anesthetics to prolong duration of analgesia. Hence we are comparing 1 mcg/kg of Fentanyl and 1 mcg/kg of… Show more
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