Saddle block with pethidine and cinchocaine for perineal operations in Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, Lahore

ABSTRACT

Two groups of twenty five patients each undergoing perineal operations in intradural saddle block with Pethidine Hydrochloride 0.5mg/kg and Cinchocaine 0.5%. The site of injection was space between L[4] / L[5]. The motor blockade caused by pethidine was adequate and post operative analgesia was much longer than that of cinchocaine