Cardiovascular and central nervous system effects of intravenous levobupivacaine and bupivacaine in sheep

Anesthesia and Analgesia
Y F HuangB Veering

Abstract

Commercially available bupivacaine is an equimolar mixture of R(+)- and S(-)-bupivacaine. S(-)-bupivacaine (i.e., levobupivacaine) is currently undergoing preclinical evaluation. Cross-over studies with i.v. levobupivacaine and bupivacaine were conducted in two groups of seven conscious sheep. Doses were chosen to avoid convulsions (smaller dose 6.25-37.5 mg/min) or to be potentially toxic (larger dose 75-200 mg/3 min). In subconvulsive doses, both drugs produced similar time- and dose-dependent depression of left ventricular systolic contractility (dP/dt(max)). Convulsions occurred consistently with > or = 75 mg of bupivacaine and > or = 100 mg of levobupivacaine, producing an abrupt reversal of dP/dt(max) depression. Subconvulsive doses produced minor cardiovascular effects on heart rate and blood pressure, whereas both were increased by convulsions. Cardiac output and myocardial blood flow were decreased with larger doses of both drugs. Doses > 75 mg of bupivacaine or > 100 mg of levobupivacaine induced QRS widening and ventricular arrhythmias, but significantly fewer and less deleterious arrhythmias were induced by levobupivacaine. Three animals died after 150, 150, and 200 mg of bupivacaine from the sudden onset of ventric...Continue Reading

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