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Anesth Analg 2005;101:1247-1248
© 2005 International Anesthesia Research Society


LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Can’t Blame Ropivacaine

M. K. Panni, MD, PhD

Department of Anesthesiology; Duke University Medical Center; Durham, NC; m.panni{at}duke.edu

In Response:

I would like to thank Dr. Zeidan for his comments regarding the case we presented (1). The case cited with bupivacaine and fentanyl does indeed show an extremely long block (2); however it is not uncommon for bupivacaine spinals to last a substantial amount of time, which may delay discharge of day surgery patients (3). The addition of fentanyl would both increase the intensity of the spinal block as well as affect to some extent its duration, as Dr. Zeidan suggested. However, there has not been a case reported with spinal ropivacaine, with or without the addition of fentanyl, that has lasted such an extended period of time. This patient had received an earlier spinal anesthetic with bupivacaine and fentanyl without incident, so the only difference in her case was the use of ropivacaine as opposed to bupivacaine. As to the suggestion of adding fentanyl to the title of the case, that would also be reasonable.

References

  1. James ML, Panni MK. Extremely prolonged unilateral block (20 hours) with spinal ropivacaine used for cervical cerclage placement. Anesth Analg 2005;100:897–8.[Free Full Text]
  2. Arndt JA, Downey T. Exceptionally prolonged anesthesia after a small dose of intrathecal bupivacaine. Anesthesiology 2002;97:1042.[Medline]
  3. Erhan E, Ugur G, Anadolu O, et al. General anaesthesia or spinal anaesthesia for outpatient urological surgery. Eur J Anaesthesiol 2003;20:647–52.[Medline]




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