Effects of Systemic or Adjunct Tramadol Addition to Lidocaine Used for IVRA in Patients Undergoing Hand Surgery
Status:
Completed
Trial end date:
2013-08-01
Target enrollment:
Participant gender:
Summary
Intravenous regional anesthesia (IVRA) is used in outpatient hand surgery as an easily
applicable and cost-effective technique with clinical advantages. Nevertheless, IVRA has some
disadvantages including anesthetic toxicity, slow-onset, poor muscle relaxation, tourniquet
pain, and minimal postoperative pain relief. Providing an ideal anesthesia by overcoming
these disadvantages is possible with the addition of some adjunct agents into local
anesthetic substances. One of these adjunct agents used for IVRA is tramadol, a synthetic
analgesic having opioid and nonopioid characteristics. The present study aimed to investigate
the effects of addition of systemic tramadol or adjunct tramadol to lidocaine for IVRA in
patients undergoing hand surgery..