%0 Journal Article
%T Efficacy of Adding Dexmedetomidine to Intra-articular Levobupivacaine on Postoperative Pain after Knee Arthroscopy
%A Mohamed Maher El Baz
%A Tamer El Metwally Farahat
%J Archive of "Anesthesia, Essays and Researches".
%D 2019
%R 10.4103/aer.AER_23_19
%X Intrarticular ingection of local anesthetics in the knee joint decreases postoperative pain after knee arthrosopy. Dexmedetomidine an ¦Á2 agonist has sedative and analgesic effects and decreases postoperative pain after knee arthroscopy when injected intraarticulary. Levobubivacaine is a long acting local anesthetic with less toxicity than bubivacaine. We compared the analgesic effects of dexmedetomidine when added to intraarticular levobupivacaine in patients posted for knee arthroscopy
%K Dexmedetomidine
%K evobupivacaine
%K intraarticular
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6545963/