Reply to: Weight and height adjusted dose regimen or fixed ED95 dose of intrathecal hyperbaric bupivacaine for cesarean delivery in parturients with different BMIs: which would be optimal?
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Ravindranath, Sapna; Ituk, Unyime S.
- Source
- Current Medical Research & Opinion. Nov2022, Vol. 38 Issue 11, p2011-2012. 2p.
- Subject
- *CESAREAN section
*BUPIVACAINE
*PREGNANT women
*OBESITY in women
- Language
- ISSN
- 0300-7995
We appreciate Prof. Gunaydin's[1] interest in our article[2] and for highlighting his concerns regarding the optimal dose (weight and height adjusted dose versus fixed ED95 dose of intrathecal hyperbaric bupivacaine) and using a fixed dose of adjuvant intrathecal opioids for cesarean delivery in parturients with different Body Mass Index (BMI) in our study. Intrathecal morphine in anesthesia for cesarean delivery: dose-response relationship for combinations of low-dose intrathecal morphine and spinal bupivacaine. [Extracted from the article]