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Current Drug Targets, 08/27/09
Congedo E et al. – Regarding to local anesthetics, the most recent literature focuses on the new enantiomers, ropivacaine and levobupivacaine, the efficacy of which is similar to that of bupivacaine with a reduced risk of cardiotoxicity. About opioids, the other class of drugs mainly used, the debate, in the last years, concerned the physicochemical properties of morphine and of the more recent lipophilic agents, fentanyl and sufentanil, in order to explain the main differences in efficacy and safety. Other categories of agents have been investigated for epidural administration, such as alpha2–adrenergic agonists clonidine and dexmedetomidine. They are being used increasingly as adjuvants to local anesthetics and opioids. Ketamine and neostigmine, the more recent studied drugs for epidural use, are still under investigation and are not part of routine clinical practice.
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