OPEN CHOLECYSTECTOMY UNDER COMBINED SPINAL- EPIDURAL AN EXPERIENCE WITH ROPIVACAINE

Abstract

Harikrishna Dalai1 Shree Nanda2 Arun Kumar3 Siddharth Chavali4 Sujata Lahiry

Cholecystectomy employing combined spinal epidural technique with lignocaine and /or bupivacaine as the local anaesthetic agent has been reported. Here we report a patient with cardiac as well as pulmonary disorders who underwent open cholecystectomy under combined spinal epidural technique with Ropivacaine as sole local anaesthetic agent.

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