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		<journal-meta>
			<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">GJRA</journal-id>
			<journal-title>GJRA - Global Journal For Research Analysis</journal-title>
			<issn pub-type="ppub">2250 - 1991</issn>
			<publisher>
				<publisher-name>Indian Society for Health and Advanced Research</publisher-name>
			</publisher>
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			<article-id pub-id-type="other">gjra-5-8-5281</article-id>
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					<subject>Original Research Paper</subject>
				</subj-group>
			</article-categories>
			<title-group>
				<article-title>A comparative study of post operative analgesic effect of intra-articular levobupivacaine and levobupivacaine with fentanyl in arthroscopic knee surgery.</article-title>
			</title-group>
			<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author">
						<name>
							<surname>Haripada</surname>
							<given-names>Das</given-names>
							<prefix>Dr.</prefix>
						</name>
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							<sup></sup>
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						</contrib><contrib contrib-type="author">
						<name>
							<surname>Prof.</surname>
							<given-names>(Dr) Sampa Dutta Gupta</given-names>
							<prefix>Dr.</prefix>
						</name>
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							<sup></sup>
						</xref>
						</contrib><contrib contrib-type="author">
						<name>
							<surname>Dr.</surname>
							<given-names>Aritra Bhattacharya</given-names>
							<prefix>Dr.</prefix>
						</name>
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							<sup></sup>
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						</contrib></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="ppub">
				<month>August</month>
				<year>2016</year>
			</pub-date>
			<volume>5</volume>
			<issue>8</issue>
			<fpage>01</fpage>
			<lpage>02</lpage>
			<abstract>
				<title>ABSTRACT</title>
				<p>&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;&amp;amp;nbsp;Introduction: This study was undertaken to compare and evaluate the analgesic efficacy between levobupuvacaine and levobupivacaine - fentanyl combination for post operative pain relief after arthroscopic knee surgery . Aims to compare total rescue analgesia requirement in first 24 hrs in these two groups and compare the adverse effects. Methodology: 66 adult patients randomly allocated in two groups to received 20 ml 0.5% levobupivacaine with 1ml normal saline and 20ml 0.5% levobupivacaine with 1ml fentanyl. At the end of arthroscopic procedure done under general anesthesia before port closure, study drugs were administered. Intramuscular Diclofenac 75mg uses as rescue analgesic when VAS&amp;amp;gt;4. Results: Time of rescue analgesia in Group A was 335.75&amp;amp;plusmn;30.39 minutes compared to Group B 373.81&amp;amp;plusmn;25.70 minutes. Total rescue analgesia in Group A were 1.687&amp;amp;plusmn;0.4709 compared to Group B;1.39&amp;amp;plusmn;0.4961. No adverse effects observed . Conclusion: Intra-articular levobupivacaine with fentanyl is more efficacious than levobupivacaine alone.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;</p>
			</abstract>			
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