Total intravenous anaesthesia with propofol or inhalational anaesthesia with isoflurane for major abdominal surgery. Recovery characteristics and postoperative oxygenation--an international multicentre study

Anaesthesia
A S PhillipsS C Hunter

Abstract

Two hundred and ten adult patients undergoing open cholecystectomy, vagotomy or gastrectomy were included in a randomised multicentre study to compare postoperative nausea and vomiting, oxygen saturations for the first three postoperative nights, time to return of gastrointestinal function, mobilisation, and discharge from the hospital following induction and maintenance of anaesthesia with propofol and alfentanil or with thiopentone, nitrous oxide, isoflurane and alfentanil. Recovery from anaesthesia was significantly faster in the propofol group (mean (SD) times to eye opening and giving correct date of birth of 14.0 (SD 13.8) and 25.5 (SD 29.5) minutes, and 18.5 (SD 14.8) and 35.5 (SD 37.2) minutes in the propofol and isoflurane groups respectively). There was significantly less nausea in the propofol group (15.4%) than in the isoflurane group (33.7%) in the first two postoperative hours (p < 0.003) but not thereafter. There were no significant differences between the groups in any other recovery characteristics. The incidence of hypoxaemia (arterial oxygen saturation less than 93%) was close to 70% in both groups for the first three postoperative nights, indicating the need for oxygen therapy after major abdominal surgery.

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Jul 17, 2001·Ambulatory Surgery·M E. Stocker, K Houghton
Nov 3, 1998·Anaesthesia·W L Rowe
Jun 26, 1998·Anaesthesia·R K Mirakhur, M Morgan
Jan 10, 2014·Anesthesiology·Philip J Peyton, Christine Yx Wu
Mar 15, 2008·Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica·M J OehmkeG Hempelmann

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