1. Spinal anaesthesia with ropivacaine 5 mg ml−1 in glucose 10 mg ml−1 or 50 mg ml−1 
J.B. Whiteside, D Burke, J.A.W. Wildsmith 
British Journal of Anaesthesia 
Volume 86, Issue 2, Pages (February 2001)
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2. Fig 1
Profile of sensory block in two groups of 20 patients after intrathecal injection of 3 ml ropivacaine 5 mg ml−1 with 10 mg ml−1 or 50 mg ml−1 glucose. *P<0.05 between the groups. (60 min: glucose 10 mg ml−1 n=12, glucose 50 mg ml−1 n=8; 90 min: glucose 10 mg ml−1 n=16, glucose 50 mg ml−1 n=16.)
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3. Fig 2
Upper levels of sensory block in individual patients. Horizontal bars represent the medians. Data for plain 0.5% ropivacaine reproduced from van Kleef and colleagues (with permission). All patients received 15 mg ropivacaine in 3 ml.
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