COMPARATIVE STUDY OF ROPIVACAINE (0.75%) AND BUPIVACAINE (0.5%) FOR EPIDURAL ANAESTHESIA IN PATIENTS UNDERGOING LOWER ABDOMINAL AND LOWER EXTREMITY SURGERIES

Abstract

Background: Epidural analgesia has become the most commonly used technique which not only provides perioperative surgical anaesthesia but also postoperative analgesia following lower abdomen and lower limb procedures is epidural anaesthesia. Present study was aimed to compare ropivacaine (0.75%) versus bupivacaine(0.5%) for epidural anaesthesia in patients undergoing lower abdominal and lower extremity surgeries