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The cardiovascular effects of vecuronium during halothane anaesthesia
Author(s) -
Kristensen J.,
HelboHansen H. S.,
Tuft P.,
Hole P.
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
acta anaesthesiologica scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.738
H-Index - 107
eISSN - 1399-6576
pISSN - 0001-5172
DOI - 10.1111/j.1399-6576.1989.tb02952.x
Subject(s) - medicine , anesthesia , placebo , heart rate , bradycardia , blood pressure , halothane , general anaesthesia , randomized controlled trial , nitrous oxide , elective surgery , surgery , alternative medicine , pathology
In a double‐blind, placebo‐controlled, prospective randomized trial in 70 otherwise healthy patients undergoing elective surgery of the thyroid gland, the breast, the inguinal canal or the lower limbs, we studied the cardiovascular effects of vecuronium during halothane‐nitrous oxide anaesthesia. Vecuronium was found to have no clinically significant influence on heart rate or mean arterial pressure, before or during surgery. Bradycardia was a rare event under the special conditions of the study design.