INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OBSTETRIC ANESTHESIA, cilt.17, sa.3, ss.217-222, 2008 (SCI-Expanded)
Background: Hypotension during spinal anesthesia is one of the major concerns in cesarean section. To achieve adequate spinal anesthesia with less hypotension, we evaluated the viability of sequential subarachnoid injection of two different baricities of bupivacame. We used plain bupivacaine 5 mg to obtain dense anesthesia of the surgical site, followed by hyperbaric bupivacame 5 mg to achieve spread to T5 anesthesia to address visceral pain.