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The effect of different end‐tidal volatile agent and carbon dioxide concentrations upon the incidence of postoperative shivering
Author(s) -
HARWOOD R. J.,
SINGH P.,
CARTWRIGHT D. P.,
CROSSLEY A. W. A.
Publication year - 1995
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.1365-2044.1995.tb06141.x
Subject(s) - shivering , medicine , anesthesia , incidence (geometry) , significant difference , carbon dioxide , oxygen saturation , oxygen , surgery , chemistry , physics , organic chemistry , optics
Summary Sixty patients (47 female) undergoing surgical excision of three or more wisdom teeth were randomly allocated into three groups with differing end‐tidal carbon dioxide and volatile agent concentrations during maintenance of anaesthesia. The anaesthetic techniques employed were identical in all other respects. All patients were observed for 10 min after arrival in the recovery area to assess the presence and severity of shivering, axillary temperature and oxygen saturation. There were no significant differences in axillary temperatures between groups or between shivering and non‐shivering patients, although there was a significant difference (p = 0.001) in duration of anaesthesia between shivering and non‐shivering patients. There was no significant difference between groups with respect to the incidence of shivering (p = 0.96)