POSTPARTUM CHANGES IN THE MINIMUM ALVEOLAR CONCENTRATION OF ISOFLURANE
POSTPARTUM CHANGES IN THE MINIMUM ALVEOLAR CONCENTRATION OF ISOFLURANE
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DOI:
10.1097/00000542-199506000-00006
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发表时间:
1995-06-01
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影响因子:
8.8
通讯作者:
GIN, T
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作者:
CHAN, MTV;GIN, T
Background: Minimum alveolar concentration (MAC) is decreased in pregnancy, but it is not known how quickly after delivery MAC returns to normal. We measured the MAC of isoflurane in a group of women undergoing elective tubal ligation after delivery.Methods: After delivery, 20 patients underwent inhalational induction of anesthesia with isoflurane and tracheal intubation. MAC was determined in each patient by observing the response to a 10-s, 50-Hz, 80-mA transcutaneous tetanic electric stimulus to the ulnar nerve at various concentrations of isoflurane. The end-tidal concentration of Isoflurane was kept constant for at least 10 min before each stimulus, and the concentration of isoflurane was ultimately varied in steps of 0.05 vol%until we obtained a sequence of three alternate responses: move-not move-move or not move-move-not move, The MAC for each subject was taken as the mean of the two concentrations just permitting and just preventing movement. A venous blood sample was taken immediately before induction of anesthesia for measurement of progesterone concentration. MAC was compared with time after delivery and plasma progesterone concentrations by Kendall's rank correlation.Results: There was a positive correlation between MAC and the time after delivery (P