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Mood evaluation and outpatient anaesthesia
Author(s) -
McDONALD N. J.,
MANNION D.,
LEE P.,
O'TOOLE D. P.,
O'BOYLE C.,
KEANE P. K.
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.tb09075.x
Subject(s) - medicine , propofol , mood , anesthesia , general anaesthesia , minor surgery , psychiatry
Summary Mood state was evaluated in 40 unpremeditated patients who underwent minor gynaecological surgery, before and up to 4 hours after, anaesthesia induced with either propofol 2.5 mg/kg or thiopentone 5 mg/kg. Assessments were made by a self‐report technique, the profile of mood states method. The results indicate that mood state was less affected postoperatively in patients induced with propofol than with thiopentone. The overall impression of the investigators was that propofol patients had a definite sense of well‐being after anaesthesia.