• Anesthesia and analgesia · Aug 2013

    Randomized Controlled Trial

    The effect of a bolus dose of intravenous lidocaine on the minimum alveolar concentration of sevoflurane: a prospective, randomized, double-blinded, placebo-controlled trial.

    • Thomas Hamp, Mario Krammel, Ulrike Weber, Rainer Schmid, Alexandra Graf, and Walter Plöchl.
    • Department of Anesthesiology and General Intensive Care Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, Währinger Gürtel 18-20, 1090 Vienna, Austria. thomas.hamp@meduniwien.ac.at
    • Anesth. Analg.. 2013 Aug 1;117(2):323-8.

    BackgroundThe anesthetic effect of volatile anesthetics can be quantified by the minimum alveolar concentration (MAC) of the drug that prevents movement in response to a noxious stimulus in 50% of patients. The underlying mechanism regarding how immobilization is achieved by volatile anesthetics is not thoroughly understood, but several drugs affect MAC. In this study, we investigated the effect of a single IV bolus dose of lidocaine on the MAC of sevoflurane in humans.MethodsWe determined the MAC for sevoflurane using the Dixon "up-and-down" method in 3 groups of patients, aged 30 to 65 years, who underwent elective surgery (30 patients per group). Study medication (placebo, 0.75 mg·kg(-1) lidocaine or 1.5 mg·kg(-1) lidocaine) was administered 3 minutes before skin incision after a 15-minute equilibration period and the response to skin incision was recorded (movement versus no movement).ResultsMAC was 1.86% ± 0.40% in the placebo and 1.87% ± 0.45% in the 0.75 mg·kg(-1) lidocaine group (P = 1.00). MAC was 1.63% ± 0.24% in the 1.5 mg·kg(-1) lidocaine group, which was significantly lower than that of the placebo group (mean difference of 0.23% sevoflurane [95% adjusted confidence interval {CI}, 0.03-0.43]; P = 0.022). No significant difference was observed between the 0.75 mg·kg(-1) lidocaine and the placebo groups (mean difference of -0.01% sevoflurane [95% adjusted CI, -0.27 to 0.25]; P = 1).ConclusionsIV 1.5 mg·kg(-1) lidocaine decreased the MAC by at least 0.03% sevoflurane (mean difference 0.23% sevoflurane [95% adjusted CI, 0.03-0.43]). We did not observe a significant reduction in the MAC of sevoflurane with the IV administration of 0.75 mg·kg(-1) lidocaine.

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