Authors: Tomoki Nishiyama
Publish Date: 2007/05/30
Volume: 21, Issue: 2, Pages: 265-269
Abstract
Forty patients scheduled for spinal and epidural anesthesia were studied After premedication with intramuscular midazolam 004 mg·kg−1 an epidural catheter was inserted followed by spinal anersthesia at L4L5 with 05 hyperbaric tetracaine with epinephrine The infusion of propofol was started with 10 mg·kg−1·h−1 and was decreased to 5 mg·kg−1·h−1 at spontaneous eye closure According to the increase or decrease of the sedation level the infusion does was decreased or increased to half or twice the initial dose respectively to keep the Observers Assessment of Alertness Sedation OAAS score at 3 or 4
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