Abbreviations:
nausea and vomitingpostoperative
MAY
acute kidney injuryblood pressurebeats per minutedexmedetomidineheart rateintravenouslylength of staymean blood pressurenicardipinepostanesthesia care unitpostoperative dayspostoperative nausea and vomitingpostoperative urinary retentionspinal anesthesiaInformed consent was obtained from all participants involved in the study.Ethical approval was obtained from the Institutional Review Board (IRB) of Kyung Hee University Hospital (KHUH 2017-12-094) on March 23, 2018. The IRB approved the subject consent form, treatment protocols, and outcome parameters measured during the trial. The trial was conducted in compliance with the Declaration of Helsinki and registered with the Clinical Research Information Service (no. KCT0002864; registration date, May 15, 2018; principal investigator, Hee Yong Kang).The authors have no funding and conflicts of interest to disclose.The datasets generated during and/or analyzed during the current study are not publicly available, but are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.Supplemental Digital Content is available for this article.How to cite this article: Lee S, Ahn YN, Lee J, Kwon S, Kang HY. The effect on vital signs of concomitant administration of nicardipine and dexmedetomidine sedation after spinal anesthesia: A double-blind, randomized controlled trial. Medicine 2023;102:27(e34272).