Iraqi Postgraduate Medical Journal

Abstract

ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND:
The train-of-four (TOF) ratio should return to at least 90% to exclude potentially clinically significant postoperative residual block. The time gap between clinical recovery (subjective) until objective recovery (i.e. TOF ratio has returned to _0.90) can be considered “the potentially unsafe period of recovery
OBJECTIVE:
To determine the time difference (from giving the reversal drugs till reach TOF90% readings by acceleromyography) between patients maintained on propofol and those maintained on halothane.
PATIENTS AND METHOD:
A prospective clinical trial study100 females underwent caesarian section divided into inhalational anaesthesia group (maintained on inhalational anaesthesia-halothane) and propofol group (maintained on propofol infusion after delivery of the baby till the end of operation) then recovery is monitored using acceleromyography.
RESULT:
Times from giving reversal of the muscle relaxant till extubation and time from giving reversal till reading of TOF90% were significantly lower in propofol group than in inhalational group.
CONCLUSION:
Patients maintained on propofol was extubated earlier than those maintained on inhalational anaesthesia also needed less time to reach TOF90% i.e. inhalational anaesthesia augment muscle relaxation more than propofol.
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