Efficacy of dexmedetomidine as an adjuvant in femoral nerve block for post-op pain relief in hip surgery: A prospective randomized double-blind controlled study.

In 2013, Abdallah conducted a meta-analysis to study the facilitatory effect of dexmedetomidine in peripheral nerve block and compared studies on perineural dexmedetomidine with local anesthetic to local anesthetic alone.[ 21 ] They found that sensory block duration with perineural dexmedetomidine was prolonged, with the mean sensory duration by 284 min, but this did not reach statistical significance.

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