Dural Puncture Epidural Anesthesia Versus Traditional Spinal Anesthesia for Rigid Cystoscopy

Patients received 3ml hyperbaric bupivacaine 0.5% combined with 25 microg of fentanyl.

Patients received 15 mL mixture of (0.25% plain bupivacaine and 50 µg fentanyl) over 5 minutes, injected in the epidural space by epidural catheter at L3-L4 interspace, a dural puncture was created by the spinal needle. Braun's Espocan® combined spinal epidural kit before insertion of epidural catheter (needle-through-needle technique) but intrathecal medication administration was withheld.