comparative study of sedation with dexmedetomidine or midazolam during spinal anesthesia

ABSTRACT

Background: Regional anesthesia offers several benefits over general anesthesia. But to the patient it may be stressful as they stay awake. Sedation during regional anesthesia plays an important role in reducing the stress and patient satisfaction. It gives anxiolysis and amnesia. In contrast to general anesthesia, verbal contact is possible whenever necessary. Dreaming might be considered as the purest form of sub consciousness and it is purely subjective. The incidence of intraoperative dreaming has not been reported by many. We designed this random prospective study to compare 2 different IV sedation protocols midazolam and Dexmedetomidine with respect to dreaming during sedation under regional anesthesia