Advantages of topical marcaine during spinal surgery. Technical note.
Marcaine applied to irritated nerve roots during extradural spinal surgery may attenuate sympathetically mediated and somatosensory (pain)-related hypertensive and tachycardic crises.
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Division of Neurological Surgery, North Shore University-Cornell Medical Center, New Hyde Park, New York.
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D000767:Anesthesia, Epidural; D000772:Anesthesia, Local; D000818:Animals; D002045:Bupivacaine / Q000008:administration & dosage* / Q000009:adverse effects; D006801:Humans; D013126:Spinal Nerve Roots; D013131:Spine / Q000601:surgery*
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