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The aim of this study was to describe the dose-response relationship of prophylactic norepinephrine infusion during cesarean delivery under combined spinal-epidural anesthesia.<\/jats:p><jats:p><jats:bold>Methods:<\/jats:bold> We performed a prospective, randomized, double-blinded dose-finding study. One hundred patients undergoing elective cesarean delivery were randomly assigned to receive an infusion of norepinephrine at 0, 0.025, 0.05, 0.075 or 0.1\u00a0\u03bcg\/kg\/min initiated immediately after intrathecal injection of 10\u00a0mg bupivacaine combined with 5\u00a0\u00b5g sufentanil. An effective dose was considered when there was no hypotension (systolic blood pressure &amp;lt; 90\u00a0mm Hg or &amp;lt; 80% of baseline) during the time period from injection of intrathecal local anesthetic to delivery of the neonate. The primary aim was to determine the dose-response relationship of norepinephrine to prevent spinal anesthesia-induced hypotension. The median effective dose (ED<jats:sub>50<\/jats:sub>) and 95% effective dose (ED<jats:sub>95<\/jats:sub>) for norepinephrine were calculated utilizing probit analysis.<\/jats:p><jats:p><jats:bold>Results:<\/jats:bold> The proportion of patients with hypotension was 80, 70, 40, 15 and 5% at norepinephrine doses of 0, 0.025, 0.05, 0.075 and 0.1\u00a0\u03bcg\/kg\/min, respectively. The ED<jats:sub>50<\/jats:sub> and ED<jats:sub>95<\/jats:sub> were 0.042 (95% CI, 0.025\u20130.053)\u00a0\u00b5g\/kg\/min and 0.097 (95% CI, 0.081\u20130.134)\u00a0\u00b5g\/kg\/min, respectively. There were no differences in the Apgar scores (<jats:italic>p =<\/jats:italic> 0.685) or umbilical arterial pH (<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> = 0.485) measurements of the newborns among the treatment groups.<\/jats:p><jats:p><jats:bold>Conclusion:<\/jats:bold> A norepinephrine infusion of 0.1\u00a0\u03bcg\/kg\/min as an initial starting dose was effective for the prevention of spinal-induced hypotension.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3389\/fphar.2021.691809","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,7,12]],"date-time":"2021-07-12T14:25:31Z","timestamp":1626099931000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":14,"title":["The ED50 and ED95 of Prophylactic Norepinephrine for Preventing Post-Spinal Hypotension During Cesarean Delivery Under Combined Spinal-Epidural Anesthesia: A Prospective Dose-Finding Study"],"prefix":"10.3389","volume":"12","author":[{"given":"Wenping","family":"Xu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Dan Michael","family":"Drzymalski","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Ling","family":"Ai","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Hanqing","family":"Yao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Lin","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Fei","family":"Xiao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1965","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,7,12]]},"reference":[{"key":"B1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"55","DOI":"10.1097\/ALN.0000000000002483","article-title":"Norepinephrine Infusion for Preventing post-spinal Anesthesia Hypotension during Cesarean Delivery: A Randomized Dose-Finding Trial","volume":"130","author":"Ahmed","year":"2019","journal-title":"Anesthesiology"},{"key":"B2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"1221","DOI":"10.1213\/ANE.0b013e3181e1db21","article-title":"A Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Trial of Four Fixed Rate Infusion Regimens of Phenylephrine for Hemodynamic Support during Spinal Anesthesia for Cesarean Delivery","volume":"111","author":"Allen","year":"2010","journal-title":"Anesth. 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