Open AccessArousal time from sedation during spinal anaesthesia for elective infraumbilical surgeries: Comparison between propofol and midazolam
Author(s) -
Dipanjan Bagchi,
MC Mandal,
Malabika Basu
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
indian journal of anaesthesia/indian journal of anaesthesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.645
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 0976-2817
pISSN - 0019-5049
DOI - 10.4103/0019-5049.138972
Subject(s) - medicine , midazolam , propofol , anesthesia , spinal anesthesia , sedation , arousal , neuroscience , biology
Studies have already compared propofol and midazolam as sedatives during regional anaesthesia. A few studies have focused on recovery characteristics and very few have utilised both instrumental and clinical sedation monitoring for assessing recovery time. This study was designed primarily to compare arousal time from sedation using propofol with that of midazolam during spinal anaesthesia for infraumbilical surgeries, while depth of sedation was monitored continuously with bispectral index (BIS) monitor. The correlation between the BIS score and observer's assessment of awareness/sedation (OAA/S) score during recovery from sedation was also studied.