The aim of this study was to examine the effect of keeping the patient in a sitting position for 1 minute after spinal anaesthesia in elective caesarean operations, primarily on the formation of hypotension and secondarily on nausea-vomiting, the need for ephedrine and the block characteristics.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
214
keeping the patient in a sitting position after spinal anaesthesia
keeping the patient in supine position after spinal anaesthesia
systolic arterial hypotension
reduction of \>25% in the basal systolic arterial pressure
Time frame: every 3 minutes until the delivery and every 5 minutes until the end of surgery
sensory block
assesment of the time to reach T12 level with pin prick test
Time frame: 10 minutes after spinal block
ephedrine requirement time
the time to first administration of ephedrine as minutes after spinal block
Time frame: 1 hour after spinal block
amount of ephedrine
administrated total ephedrine dosage as mg during surgery
Time frame: 1 hour after spinal block
surgeon and patient satisfaction
1= poor, 2=fair, 3= good, 4= very good
Time frame: 24 hours after spinal block
motor block
time to Bromage Score 0 after applying spinal block
Time frame: 24 hours after spinal block
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