Specific Enhancement by Fentanyl of the Effects of Intrathecal Bupivacaine on Nociceptive Afferent But Not on Sympathetic Efferent Pathways in Dogs - Concepedia

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Specific Enhancement by Fentanyl of the Effects of Intrathecal Bupivacaine on Nociceptive Afferent But Not on Sympathetic Efferent Pathways in Dogs

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1993

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Chen Wang, Mihir K. Chakrabarti, J.G. WHITWAM

Abstract

Intrathecal bupivacaine has no selectivity for the afferent and efferent pathways, and intrathecal fentanyl acts synergistically to enhance the effect of bupivacaine on the afferent pathway without a measurable effect on sympathetic outflow.