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Paravertebral transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation reduces movement during general anesthesia with isoflurane
- Source :
- Anesthesia and analgesia. 102(6)
- Publication Year :
- 2006
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Abstract
- We evaluated paravertebral transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) as a means of enhancing anesthesia during hysterectomy. Patients were randomly assigned to experimental (n = 21) and control (n = 20) groups. Anesthesia with isoflurane was performed uniformly for all patients. Paravertebral (T6 and T7) TENS (50 mA, 15 Hz, continuously) was applied in the experimental group. After 15 min of isoflurane, a lower abdominal, skin-to-adipose-tissue incision was made. Seventeen of 21 patients in the experimental group showed no arm or leg movements during the incision, compared to 8 with 20 patients in the control group (P = 0.007). TENS deserves further exploration as an adjunct technique for general anesthesia.
- Subjects :
- Adult
medicine.medical_specialty
Hysterectomy
Isoflurane
business.industry
medicine.medical_treatment
Movement
Extremities
Anesthesia, General
Middle Aged
Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation
Surgery
law.invention
Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine
law
Anesthesia
Anesthetics, Inhalation
medicine
Transcutaneous Electric Nerve Stimulation
Humans
Female
business
medicine.drug
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15267598
- Volume :
- 102
- Issue :
- 6
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Anesthesia and analgesia
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....e5771e8fbaceb65834ff152889eaf401