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| Year : 2009 | Volume
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| Issue : 1 | Page : 15-19 |
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Assessment of different concentrations of ketofol in procedural operations
Mohamed Daabiss, Medhat Elsherbiny, Rashed Al Otaibi
Department of Anesthesia, Riyadh Armed Forces Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Correspondence Address:
Mohamed Daabiss
Department of Anesthesia, Riyadh Armed Forces Hospital, Riyadh
Saudi Arabia
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DOI: 10.4103/1658-354X.51829
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Background. Propofol is an intravenous anesthetic that is often used as an adjuvant during monitored anesthesia care, the addition of ketamine to propofol may counteract the cardiorespiratory depression seen with propofol used alone. Ketofol (ketamine/propofol combination) was used for procedural sedation and analgesia. However, evaluation of the effectiveness of different concentrations of Ketofol in procedural operation regarding changes in haemodynamics, emergence phenomena, recovery time, the doses, and adverse effects was not yet studied, so this randomized, double blinded study was designed to compare the quality of analgesia and side effects of intravenous different concentrations of ketofol
Patient and Methods. One hundred children of both sex undergoing procedural operation, e.g. esophgoscopy, rectoscopy, bone marrow aspiration and liver biopsy participated in this. Patients received an infusion of a solution containing either combination of propofol: ketamine (1:1) (Group I) or propofol: ketamine (4:1) (Group II). Subsequent infusion rates to a predetermined sedation level using Ramsay Sedation Scale. Heart rate, noninvasive arterial blood pressure (NIBP), oxygen saturation (SpO2), end tidal carbon dioxide (Etco 2 ) and incidence of any side effects were recorded.
Results. There were no significant hemodynamic changes in both groups after induction. However, there was an increase in postoperative nausea, psychomimetic side effects, and delay in discharge times in group I compared to group II.
Conclusion. The adjunctive use of smaller dose of ketamine in ketofol combination minimizes the psychomimetic side effects and shortens the time of hospital discharge. |
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