Open AccessDesflurane for ambulatory anaesthesia: A comparison with sevoflurane for recovery profile and airway responses
Author(s) -
Kajal Dalal,
Meghana Vijay Choudhary,
Adit Jagdish Palsania,
Pratibha V Toal
Publication year - 2017
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/ija.ija_513_16
Subject(s) - medicine , desflurane , sevoflurane , anesthesia , ambulatory , airway , surgery
Desflurane and sevoflurane have low blood gas solubility co-efficients, allowing a rapid awakening from anaesthesia. However, desfluraneis pungent and may cause airway irritability. We compared desflurane and sevoflurane with respect to recovery and occurrence of adverse airway responses in spontaneously breathing patients while using the ProSeal™ laryngeal mask airway (LMA).