Open AccessQuantifying influence of epidural analgesia on entropy guided general anaesthesia using sevoflurane – A randomised controlled trial
Author(s) -
M Ravishankar,
Dalena Merin Mathew,
V R Hemanthkumar,
Parthasarathy Srinivasan
Publication year - 2020
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_697_19
Subject(s) - medicine , sevoflurane , anesthesia , general anaesthesia , bupivacaine , minimum alveolar concentration , heart rate , randomized controlled trial , saline , blood pressure , surgery
Minimum alveolar concentration (MAC) of inhalational agent denotes the requirement of it to maintain adequate plane of general anaesthesia. The precision to the maintenance of anaesthesia can be further guided by use of entropy to titrate the depth of anaesthesia. Regional anaesthesia and the concomitant deafferentation will decrease the need of general anaesthetics. We conducted a randomised double-blind trial to quantify the effect of addition of regional anaesthesia to sevoflurane based general anaesthesia technique guided by entropy to achieve satisfactory depth of anaesthesia.