The Bupivacaine Dose Sparing Effect of Intrathecal Epinephrine
Status:
Completed
Trial end date:
2011-07-01
Target enrollment:
Participant gender:
Summary
Intrathecal epinephrine has been known to increase the duration of spinal anesthesia, or
increase the quality of anesthesia. However, there is still a controversy, and the mechanism
of epinephrine is recently suggested as a modulator of pain information in the spinal cord.
Therefore, the investigators try to investigate the dose sparing effect of intrathecal
epinephrine for spinal anesthesia with bupivacaine.