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