Subarachnoid anaesthesia with bupivacaine for orthopaedic procedures in the elderly.
The use of a plain 0.5% solution of isobaric bupivacaine for spinal anaesthesia is described in a consecutive series of 410 patients undergoing orthopaedic operations on the lower limbs. It gave analgesia of sufficient extent, duration and degree in 96.6% of cases for procedures that lasted up to 250 min. The most common problem was arterial hypotension which required sympathomimetic therapy in 37.7% of patients.
D000368:Aged; D000775:Anesthesia, Spinal; D002045:Bupivacaine; D005260:Female; D050723:Fractures, Bone / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013997:Time Factors
D002045:Bupivacaine