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Recovery and morbidity after daycase anaesthesia
Author(s) -
MILLAR J. M.,
JEWKES C. F.
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
anaesthesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.839
H-Index - 117
eISSN - 1365-2044
pISSN - 0003-2409
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2044.1988.tb05743.x
Subject(s) - enflurane , medicine , propofol , alfentanil , anesthesia , surgery , halothane
Summary The anaesthetic conditions, recovery and side effects for 48 hours postoperatively were compared after anaesthesia for day surgery using propofol or thiopentone‐enflurane with and without alfentanil. Propofol provided good conditions for surgery with faster immediate recovery (p < 0.001): patients who received it were fit for discharge significantly sooner (p < 0.001). Visual analogue scores of postoperative wellbeing showed an improvement in both propofol groups (p < 0.01]; after thiopentone and enflurane the scores were reduced and took 2 days to return to the pre‐operative values. There was a significant (p < 0.001) reduction in postoperative morbidity in both the groups that received propofol up to 24 hours after discharge. The addition of alfentanil improved anaesthetic conditions and reduced postoperative morbidity with both propofol and thiopentone–enflurane.