Online ISSN: 2515-8260

Oral gabapentin (600mg) versus oral pregabalin (75mg) for orthopedic surgery under spinal anesthesia: Hemodynamic changes

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Dr. Rahul Bankapur, Dr. Preeti Lamba, Dr. Rahul Jain

Abstract

The myelinated A δ (sharp pain, first pain) peripheral nociceptors and unmyelinated C nociceptors (delayed pain, second pain) respond to strong mechanical, thermal, chemical stimuli that act as transducers, converting chemical, mechanical or thermal energy at the site of stimulus to electrical activity, which are conducted to the dorsal horn of CNS. Based on previous study by Usha Bafna et al., sample size was calculated to be 30 patients, to be randomly included in each group to demonstrate a 40% difference in duration of analgesia with a power of 0.8 and type-1 error of 0.05. To allow for study error and attrition, 35 patients were included in each group. In Group A, 3 (8.57%) patients and in Group B, 4 (11.42%) showed hypotension that is mean SBP was less than 20% of the base line, were as none of patients in either group showed hypertension that is more than 20% of the baseline SBP (intraop and postop). There was no statistically significant difference between two groups P value (0.6903).

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