Join your fellow doctors to discuss and answer today’s challenge! A 29-year-old woman was admitted to the gynecology department for delivery. Due to cephalo-pelvic disproportion, the emergency cesarean section was planned under spinal anesthesia. The pregnant woman was kept in the left lateral position and administered bupivacaine, an anesthetic agent that contains dextrose as an additive.
What would be the most important reason to use dextrose as an additive in an anesthetic agent? *This case challenge is from the editorial team of Docplexus and is meant for educational purposes only. Source: British Journal of Anaesthesia