Background: Different adjuvants have been used with local anesthetics to improve quality of regional anesthesia (sub-arachnoid, epidural or combined sub-arachnoid and epidural block) and to avoid intra-operative visceral and somatic pain and to provide prolonged post-operative analgesia. Dexmedetomidine is a highly selective α2-adrenergic agonist which has both analgesic and sedative properties wh...
Background: Different adjuvants have been used with local anesthetics to improve quality of regional anesthesia (sub-arachnoid, epidural or combined sub-arachnoid and epidural block) and to avoid intra-operative visceral and somatic pain and to provide prolonged post-operative analgesia. Dexmedetomidine is a highly selective α2-adrenergic agonist which has both analgesic and sedative properties wh...