Minerva anestesiologica
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Minerva anestesiologica · Feb 1980
[Delivery under general anesthesia with the sequence of althesin and lysine acetylsalicylate; a clinical contribution].
Personal experience in the use of Althesin in painless childbirth is reported. The anaesthetic is held to have no effect on the foetus and the technique using Althesin and acetylsalicylate of lysine is considered the correct one. If properly applied, it offers the foetus complete wellbeing during labour and enables the mother to overcome the psychophysical stress of an event which is too often accepted with inherited feelings of ancestral fear.
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Minerva anestesiologica · Feb 1980
[Use of althesin as a drug to induce and maintain anesthesia for cesarean section].
Results with CT 1341 as the main anaesthetic agent in balanced anaesthesia in 90 cases of caesarean section are presented. It was found that this form of steroid anaesthesia had no effect on the Apgar score uterine tone, maternofoetal metabolism, or cardiocirculatory and respiratory stability. Reference is made to the possible injury of theatre staff owing to chronic exposure to volatile anaesthetics, and it is asserted that the use of althesin is a positive step forward in the solution of this problem.
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The effects of Althesin (group A) and thiopentone (group B) in mother and newborn were compared after their use in the induction of narcosis in 80 patients undergoing Caesarean section. The mean doses of Althesin (0.072 ml/kg i.v.) and thiopentone (4.1 mg/kg i.v.) proved sufficient to guarantee rapid onset of sleep (about 20 seconds) in both groups. ⋯ The clinical condition of the newborns at 1st, 3rd and 5th minutes after extraction, assessed by means of the Apgar index, was excellent in both groups of patients. Results obtained were assessed by analysing variance with the Fisher test.
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The indications for the employment of Althesin in caesarean section are explained and a substantially favourable opinion is expressed on its clinical effects. Absence of neonatal depression is attributed both to the distribution and metabolism of the drug, and to the features of foetal circulation at term.
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Minerva anestesiologica · Feb 1980
[Use of althesin as an induction anesthetic in cesarean section].
Althesin was used to induce anaesthesia in 40 patients subjected to caesarean section. A favourable impression was gained from the addition of 1 ml leptofen in 20 cases to prevent adverse effects on the mother due to the low analgesic power of the drug.