Open AccessAPGAR SCORE OF NEONATE
Author(s) -
Aneel Aslam,
Fawad Alam,
Adeel Aslam
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
the professional medical journal/the professional medical journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2071-7733
pISSN - 1024-8919
DOI - 10.29309/tpmj/2006.13.02.5005
Subject(s) - medicine , apgar score , propofol , group b , anesthesia , atropine , group a , obstetrics and gynaecology , surgery , pregnancy , birth weight , genetics , biology
A comparative study was conducted in CMH, Malir, CMH, Kharian andWT (Pvt) Ltd. Gynaecology and Obstetrics, Multan from April 2001 to March 2004. The Apgar score of neonate wascompared for thiopentone or propofol in C-section patients. Two groups of patients were made. Group-A was inducedwith thiopentone and group-B was induced with propofol. Each group had 100 patients. In group-A 13 neonatesrequired manipulation and 2 neonates in group-B also required manipulation like mask ventilation or endotrachealintubation and one of drugs like atropine to improve apgar score. 13% neonates in group-A and 1% neonates in group-B required manipulation. This clearly shows the superiority of propofol over thiopentone as an induction agent in Csection.The P value of group-A was 0.13 and for group B was 0.02 and had had a statistically significant difference.