Comparison of the Anaesthetic Gases in Maintainance of General Anaesthesia in Paediatrics
Status:
Recruiting
Trial end date:
2021-12-31
Target enrollment:
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Summary
Desflurane and Sevoflurane are one of the modern inhalational anaesthetic agents currently in
use in anaesthetic practice. The properties of desflurane that has low blood gas solubility
coefficient of 0.47 compared to sevoflurane (0.68) made it more advantageous when used with
supraglottic airway in maintaining general anaesthesia in paediatrics . It ensures rapid
onset and offset of anaesthesia. Rapid recovery profiles especially among pediatric
populations is to ensure less complications associated with prolonged recovery of anaesthesia
upon emergence from anaesthesia. Nevertherless, desflurane has its drawback which is it can
cause airway irritability related to its pungency. Hence, it is not used as an induction
anaesthetic agent in paediatrics. This study was done to evaluate the effectiveness of
desflurane in comparison to sevoflurane in maintaining spontaneous general anaesthesia in
paediatrics population using Ambu AuraGain .