Title: A Comparative Study of the Anesthetic Efficacy, Post Tourniquet Release Analgesia and Side Effects of Ropivacaine 0.2% & Lignocaine 0.5% in Intravenous Regional Anesthesia for Hand Surgeries
Abstract: Intravenous regional anaesthesia technique in which analgesia and muscle relaxation are produced by the injection of an adequate volume of local anaesthetic solution into vein of an extremity with inflow andoutflow of the blood prevented by a tourniquet.Ropivacaine 0.2% in intravenous regional anaesthesia improved the anaesthetic efficacy, lengthened post tourniquet analgesia, reduced the amount of post operative rescue analgesia and had less side effects as compared to lignocaine 0.5% which has been proved statistically significant using quantitative and qualitative analysis.