Prophylactic low dose ketamine and ondansetron for prevention of shivering during spinal anaesthesia

• Main Authors: B Shakya (Author), A Chaturvedi (Author), B P Sah (Author)
• Formato: Libro
• Publicado: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: Perioperative shivering is a common problem during anaesthesia. Apart from physical warming many drugs have also been used for prevention of shivering. Ketamine has been used for preventing shivering during anaesthesia in doses of 0.5 to 0.75mg kg -1 , but even these doses causes too muc...