Open Cholecystectomy Under Combined Spinal - Epidural an Experience With Ropivacaine

Abstract

Cholecystectomy employing combined spinal epidural technique with lignocaine and /or bupivacaine as the local anaesthetic agent has been reported. Here we report a patient with cardiac as well as pulmonary disorders who underwent open cholecystectomy under combined spinal epidural technique with Ropivacaine as sole local anaesthetic agent.