Anesthesia & Clinical Research
Open Access
ISSN: 2155-6148
ISSN: 2155-6148
Ankita Singh
India
Research Article
Dexmedetomidine versus Nitroglycerin for Controlled Hypotensive Anaesthesia in Functional Endoscopic Sinus Surgery
Author(s): Darshna Dharmendra Patel*, Ankita Singh and Mahendra Upadhyay
Darshna Dharmendra Patel*, Ankita Singh and Mahendra Upadhyay
Context: In patients with chronic sinusitis, Functional Endoscopic Sinus Surgery (FESS) is the preferred surgical option as part of treatment after conservative measures have failed.
Aims: To improve the success of this surgery and to minimize complications, bloodless field is required. So our primary objective will be to provide bloodless field intraoperatively.
Settings and design: Our study was a single blinded, prospective, randomized and comparative clinical study. It included forty adult patients between 18-60 years of age and of either sex. They all were from ASA Grade I & II. The patients were distributed into two groups of 20 each.
Methods and material: Group D (n=20) Patients who received loading dose of Dexmedetomidine 1 microgram/ kilogram (μg/kg) over a period of 10 min before .. View More»
DOI:
10.4172/2155-6148.1000822