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Ropivacaine is an anaesthetic (numbing medicine) that blocks the nerve impulses that send pain signals to your brain. Ropivacaine is used as a local (in only one area) anaesthesia for a spinal block, also called an epidural. The medication is used to provide anaesthesia during a surgery or C-section, or to ease labour pains. To make sure ropivacaine is safe for you, tell your doctor if you have liver disease heart disease kidney disease or a heart rhythm disorder.

Typical Uses

Ropivacaine is used as an anaesthetic agent in different types of surgeries, including caesarean section (during delivery of a baby). It is also used to ease pain during labour, and as a local anaesthetic for acute pain management.

Side Effects

Common ropivacaine side effects include feeling anxious, restless, confused, or like you might pass out problems with speech or vision ringing in the ears, metallic taste, numbness or tingling around your mouth, or tremors seizure (convulsions) weak or shallow breathing slow heart rate, weak pulse or fast heart rate, gasping, feeling unusually hot.

Drug Interactions

• Ropivacaine+alprazolam- Using alprazolam together with ropivacaine can increase nervous system side effects such as dizziness, drowsiness, and confusion. Avoid activities requiring mental alertness such as driving or operating hazardous machinery until the effects of these medications have worn off.
• Ropivacaine+bupivacaine- Using ropivacaine together with bupivacaine may increase the effects of ropivacaine. This can cause extreme drowsiness, ringing in your ears, blurred vision, fainting, seizure (convulsions), weak or shallow breathing, or breathing that stops.
• Ropivacaine+diazepam- Using diazepam together with ropivacaine can increase nervous system side effects such as dizziness, drowsiness, and confusion. Avoid activities requiring mental alertness such as driving or operating hazardous machinery until the effects of these medications have worn off.
• Ropivacaine+fluvoxamine- Using ropivacaine together with fluvoxamine may increase the effects of ropivacaine. Contact your doctor if you experience restlessness, anxiety, incoherent speech, light-headedness, numbness and tingling of the mouth and lips, metallic taste, dizziness, blurred vision, tremors, twitching, depression, and drowsiness.
• Ropivacaine+midazolam- Using midazolam together with ropivacaine can increase nervous system side effects such as dizziness, drowsiness, and confusion. Avoid activities requiring mental alertness such as driving or op

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Mechanism of action

Ropivacaine is an anaesthetic that belongs to class of medicines called amino amides. It blocks the generation and the conduction of nerve impulses which are responsible for transferring pain signals to brain.

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