Vertical integration in postgraduate teaching for anaesthesiology residents: A questionnaire based descriptive cross-sectional study.

Background: Medical education has observed numerous reforms in the last hundred years. While most of the reforms are applied to the undergraduate teaching, postgraduate education and training have lagged behind in keeping the pace. Anesthesiology curriculum has witnessed a few new methods inducted into practice like problem-based learning, flipped classroom etc.

Comparative study for better adjuvant with ropivacaine in epidural anesthesia.

Background: Better adjuvants for epidural analgesia are still evolving. Dexmedetomidine that is alpha-2 agonist can be used as an adjuvant in epidural analgesia and anesthesia.

Aims: The aim of this study was to compare the effect of dexmedetomidine versus clonidine in combination with ropivacaine in epidural anesthesia on intraoperative and postoperative analgesia, to find out the better adjuvant for regional anesthesia.