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bupivacaine
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bupivacaine /bu·piv·a·caine/ (bu-piv´ah-kān) a local anesthetic, used as the hydrochloride for local infiltration, peripheral nerve block, and retrobulbar, subarachnoid, sympathetic, caudal, or epidural block.
bu·piv·a·caine (by-pv-kn)
n.
A potent, long-acting local anesthetic used in regional anesthesia.

bupivacaine [bu-piv´ah-kān]
a local anesthetic, used as the hydrochloride for local infiltration, peripheral nerve block, and retrobulbar, subarachnoid, sympathetic, caudal, or epidural block.

bupivacaine
Marcaine® Anesthesiology A potent local anesthetic with a 4-8 hr duration of action, doubled by adding epinephrine. Cf Ropivacaine.


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In a recent clinical trial of coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery patients (n=38), Lee and associates (2003) compared the use of GA in combination with high-dose IT bupivicaine (ITB-GA) spinal anesthesia to GA alone.
Twenty of the patients failed to respond and were randomized to receive either PRP injection (n=15) or bupivicaine (local anesthetic) injection.
He told the Yardley family there were a number of possible causes including an adverse reaction to local anaesthetic Bupivicaine, death from a spasm of the larynx in the throat or cardiac arythmia - when the heart stops suddenly, but they would never know for sure.
 
 
 
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