Donatiello, Valerio https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1424-5944
Alfieri, Aniello
Napolitano, Andrea
Maffei, Vincenzo
Coppolino, Francesco
Pota, Vincenzo
Passavanti, Maria Beatrice
Pace, Maria Caterina
Sansone, Pasquale
Funding for this research was provided by:
Università degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli
Article History
Received: 11 October 2022
Accepted: 14 November 2022
First Online: 19 December 2022
Declarations
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: This retrospective analysis is based on data from the medical records for evaluating patients undergoing sedation with dexmedetomidine in orthopaedic surgery, a standard clinical therapy. We received Ethics Committee approval. All sedation protocols, postoperative pain drugs administration and local anaesthetic drugs dosage used in locoregional anaesthesia were administered as standard clinical procedures.
: All patients consent to data publication. The consent to data publication for scientific purposes is an integral part of the anaesthetic consent that patients usually sign in our hospital. The trials were conducted in accordance with the International Conference on Harmonization Good Clinical Practice guidelines and the provisions of the 2008 Declaration of Helsinki.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.