Sumairah Ishaq

Department of Orthopaedics, Fortis Super Speciality Hospital, Anandapur, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Publications

• Research Article
  Comparison of local anesthetic infiltration to continuous femoral nerve block for post-operative analgesia in total knee replacement patients
  Author(s): Ayaz Ali Mir*, Sumairah Ishaq, Rakesh Rajput, Kunal Paul and Sirazul Kamal
  
  Objective: This study compared post-operative analgesic efficacy, morphine consumption, mobilization time and complications of a continuous Femoral Nerve Block (FNB) with Local Infiltration Anesthesia (LIA).s Material and methods: 60 patients scheduled for unilateral total knee replacement under spinal anesthesia, were randomly allocated in two groups FNB and LIA group. FNB group received bolus dose of drug-containing 20 ml of 0.5% levo bupivacaine plus 50 μg of dexmedetomidine plus 80 μg of fentanyl and in post-operative period an infusion of 0.2% ropivacaine was started of 7 ml per hour while LIA group received a mixture of 100 ml prepared by adding 40 ml 0.5% levo bupivacaine plus 60 mg ketorolac plus 15 mg morphine plus normal saline and given in 2 injections. Postoperative pain severity was measured by using VAS scale, rescue analge.. Read More»