1. [Total intravenous anesthesia with propofol is advantageous than thiopental-sevoflurane anesthesia in the recovery phase]
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Matsumoto H, Shingu K, Numata K, Ogura S, Hanaoka K, Ito H, Kugimiya T, Kazama T, Ikeda K, Masahiro Murakawa, Mori K, Mashimo T, Yoshiya I, Morio M, Nakao M, and Sato A
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Adult ,Male ,Methyl Ethers ,Incidence ,Nitrous Oxide ,Anesthesia, General ,Middle Aged ,Anesthetics, Combined ,Fentanyl ,Sevoflurane ,Postoperative Complications ,Anesthesia Recovery Period ,Anesthetics, Inhalation ,Anesthesia, Intravenous ,Humans ,Female ,Prospective Studies ,Thiopental ,Propofol ,Anesthetics, Intravenous ,Aged - Abstract
A randomized, prospective and multi-institutional study was performed to investigate whether different anesthetic methods affected differently the quality of recovery from anesthesia. Two hundred and eleven patients were allocated to one of two groups; total intravenous anesthesia (TIVA) with propofol and fentanyl (group P, n = 107) and general anesthesia with thiopental, sevoflurane and nitrous oxide (group TS, n = 104). The rapidity of emergence from anesthesia and postoperative incidence of nausea, vomiting, and headache were compared between the two groups. The group P showed significantly shorter emergence times for verbal command responses (7.4 +/- 5.6 min), extubation (10.0 +/- 6.0 min) and orientation (13.1 +/- 7.8 min) than the group TS (9.1 +/- 5.0 min, 11.7 +/- 6.2 min, 16.4 +/- 7.9 min, respectively). The postoperative incidence of vomiting was not significantly different between the two groups (3.7% in the group P and 9.6% in the group TS), but the postoperative incidences of nausea and headache were significantly lower in the group P compared with the group TS (10.3%, 17.8%, respectively in the group P and 34.6%, 29.8%, respectively in the group TS). We conclude that TIVA with propofol is advantageous than thiopental-sevoflurane anesthesia in the recovery phase.