Role of midazolam as an adjuvant to local anaesthetic in suparaclavicular brachial plexus block

Abstract

Objective : objective of this study is to compare the duration of sensory and motor blockage, duration of post operative analgesia, request the first
rescue analgesic, total doses required of post operative analgesia by the patient in both control and midazolam group. Present study also compare
sedation score and visual analogue score (VAS) in both groups.
Methods: Present study was carried out on 100 patient which were divided in two groups. One group( 50 subjects) is control group and another
is midazolam group(50 subjects) which receive midazolam as an adjuvant to local anaesthetic in supraclavicular brachial plexus block. with
proper anaesthetic technique duration of sensory block, motor block, duration of post operative analgesia, sedation score and visual analogue
score were obtained in both groups and values were compared with 'unpaired t test'. Values were consider statically significant when p < 0.05.
Result: present study state that there is statically significant difference between mean values of duration of sensory and motor block, duration of
post operative analgesia, sedation score and VAS.
Conclusion: the addition of midazolam to local anaesthetics in supraclavicular block improves the quality of blockade with stable
haemodynamics and desirable sedation score without any adverse effects.