• Anesthesia and analgesia · Dec 2005

    Randomized Controlled Trial Comparative Study

    Neuroendocrine stress response and heart rate variability: a comparison of total intravenous versus balanced anesthesia.

    • Thomas Ledowski, Berthold Bein, Robert Hanss, Andrea Paris, Wolfgang Fudickar, Jens Scholz, and Peter H Tonner.
    • Department of Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine, Royal Perth Hospital, Wellington Street Campus, Perth WA 6000. thomasledowski@yahoo.de
    • Anesth. Analg. 2005 Dec 1;101(6):1700-5.

    AbstractAttenuating intraoperative stress is a key factor in improving outcome. We compared neuroendocrine changes and heart rate variability (HRV) during balanced anesthesia (BAL) versus total IV anesthesia (TIVA). Forty-three patients randomly received either BAL (sevoflurane/remifentanil) or TIVA (propofol/remifentanil). Depth of anesthesia was monitored by bispectral index. Stress hormones were measured at 7 time points (P1 = baseline; P2 = tracheal intubation; P3 = skin incision; P4 = maximum operative trauma; P5 = end of surgery; P6 = tracheal extubation; P7 = 15 min after tracheal extubation). HRV was analyzed by power spectrum analysis: very low frequency (VLF), low frequency (LF), high frequency (HF), LF/HF ratio, and total power (TP). LF/HF was higher in TIVA at P6 and TP was higher in TIVA at P3-7 (P3: 412.6 versus 94.2; P4: 266.7 versus 114.6; P5: 290.3 versus 111.9; P6: 1523.7 versus 658.1; P7: 1225.6 versus 342.6 ms2)). BAL showed higher levels of epinephrine (P7: 100.5 versus 54 pg/mL), norepinephrine (P3: 221 versus 119.5; P4: 194 versus 130.5 pg/mL), adrenocorticotropic hormone (P2 10.5 versus 7.7; P5: 5.3 versus 3.6; P6: 10.9 versus 5.3; P7: 20.5 versus 7.1 pg/mL) and cortisol (P7: 6.9 versus 3.9 microg/dL). This indicates a higher sympathetic outflow using BAL versus TIVA during ear-nose-throat surgery.

      Pubmed     Full text   Copy Citation     Plaintext  

      Add institutional full text...

    Notes

     
    Knowledge, pearl, summary or comment to share?
    300 characters remaining
    help        
    You can also include formatting, links, images and footnotes in your notes
    • Simple formatting can be added to notes, such as *italics*, _underline_ or **bold**.
    • Superscript can be denoted by <sup>text</sup> and subscript <sub>text</sub>.
    • Numbered or bulleted lists can be created using either numbered lines 1. 2. 3., hyphens - or asterisks *.
    • Links can be included with: [my link to pubmed](http://pubmed.com)
    • Images can be included with: ![alt text](https://bestmedicaljournal.com/study_graph.jpg "Image Title Text")
    • For footnotes use [^1](This is a footnote.) inline.
    • Or use an inline reference [^1] to refer to a longer footnote elseweher in the document [^1]: This is a long footnote..

    hide…