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ent.[ 4 , 5 ] The intense sensory and motor block, continuous supine position for a prolonged duration and the inability to move the body during regional anaesthesia brings a feeling of discomfort and phobia in many of the patients.[ 6 ] The high cephalic spread of analgesia with local anaesthetics may be significant but still its quality sometimes may not correlate with the level of sensory analgesia.[ 7 ] At this stage, the impulsive use of large doses of sedation or even general anaesthesia with mask defeats the novel purpose of regional anaesthesia whereby a continuous verbal contact with the patient is lost.

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The data obtained was subjected to statistical computation with analysis of variance and chi-square test using statistical package for social science (SPSS) version 10.0 for windows and value of P < 0.05 was considered significant and P < 0.0001 as highly significant.

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