Randomized Trial of Hypotensive Epidural Anesthesia in Older Adults 

1999 ◽  
Vol 91 (4) ◽  
pp. 926-926 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pamela Williams-Russo ◽  
Nigel E. Sharrock ◽  
Steven Mattis ◽  
Gregory A. Liguori ◽  
Carol Mancuso ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Blood Pressure ◽  
Older Adults ◽  
Blood Loss ◽  
Elderly Patients ◽  
Arterial Blood Pressure ◽  
Epidural Anesthesia ◽  
Mean Arterial Blood Pressure ◽  
Pressure Management ◽  
Blood Pressure Management ◽  
Arterial Blood

Background Data are sparse on the incidence of postoperative cognitive, cardiac, and renal complications after deliberate hypotensive anesthesia in elderly patients. Methods This randomized, controlled clinical trial included 235 older adults with comorbid medical illnesses undergoing elective primary total hip replacement with epidural anesthesia. The patients were randomly assigned to one of two levels of intraoperative mean arterial blood pressure management: either to a markedly hypotensive mean arterial blood pressure range of 45-55 mmHg or to a less hypotensive range of 55-70 mmHg. Cognitive outcome was assessed by within-patient change on 10 neuropsychologic tests assessing memory, psychomotor, and language skills from before surgery to 1 week and 4 months after surgery. Prospective standardized surveillance was performed for cardiovascular and renal outcomes, delirium, thromboembolism, and blood loss and replacement. Results The two groups were similar at baseline in terms of age (mean, 72 yr), sex (50% women), comorbid conditions, and cognitive function. After operation, no significant differences in the incidence of early or long-term cognitive dysfunction were observed between the two blood pressure management groups. There were no significant differences in the rates of other adverse consequences, including cardiac, renal, and thromboembolic complications. In addition, no differences occurred in the duration of surgery, intraoperative estimated blood loss, or transfusion rates. Conclusions Elderly patients can safely receive controlled hypotensive epidural anesthesia with this protocol. There was no evidence of greater risks, or early benefits, with the use of the more markedly hypotensive range.

Practical aspects of blood pressure management

1991 ◽  
Vol 29 (14) ◽  
pp. 53-55
Keyword(s):  
Blood Pressure ◽  
Cardiovascular Disease ◽  
Risk Factor ◽  
Arterial Blood Pressure ◽  
Reduce Blood Pressure ◽  
Important Risk Factor ◽  
Pressure Management ◽  
Blood Pressure Management ◽  
Arterial Blood

Raised arterial blood pressure is an important risk factor for cardiovascular disease. There is now a wide choice of drugs that reduce blood pressure. This article looks at ways of improving therapy and discusses some of the problems of the different drug groups.

scholarly journals Comparison between Phentolamine and Nitroglycerin for Controlled Hypotension during Functional Endoscopic Sinus Surgery

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Blood Pressure ◽  
Blood Loss ◽  
Arterial Blood Pressure ◽  
Mean Arterial Blood Pressure ◽  
Endoscopic Sinus Surgery ◽  
Functional Endoscopic Sinus Surgery ◽  
Sinus Surgery ◽  
Controlled Hypotension ◽  
Operative Field ◽  
Arterial Blood

Background: Intraoperative bleeding is one of the most common complications in Functional endoscopic sinus surgery. Controlled hypotension is a method to minimize surgical blood loss and enhance the operative field visibility. The objective of this study was to compare the efficacy of controlled hypotensive anesthesia with intravenous infusion of phentolamine versus nitroglycerin as regarding intraoperative blood loss and hemodynamic stability. Methods: This current randomized study enrolled 30 patients candidate for Functional endoscopic sinus surgery at Beni-suef university hospital, in 2 equal groups receiving either 0.5 to 10 μg/kg/minute nitroglycerin or 0.1 to 2 mg/minute phentolamine to achieve a mean arterial blood pressure (MAP) of about 50 to 65 mmHg. Mean arterial blood pressure, amount of blood loss and the quality of surgical field using the 0-5 point bleeding scale were recorded. Results: Based on the current study findings, the two drugs produced the desired hypotension on the same time point; there were no significant differences between the study groups regarding the volume of bleeding and operative field visibility. Conclusions: Nitroglycerin and Phentolamine are safe, efficient and might be advisable option for deliberate hypotensive anesthesia throughout Functional endoscopic sinus surgery. Phentolamine can be a good alternative to Nitroglycerin in reduction of MAP during this procedure.

Liberal vs. conservative vasopressor use to maintain mean arterial blood pressure during resuscitation of septic shock: an observational study

2007 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 157-162 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sanjay Subramanian ◽  
Murat Yilmaz ◽  
Ahmer Rehman ◽  
Rolf D. Hubmayr ◽  
Bekele Afessa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Blood Pressure ◽  
Septic Shock ◽  
Observational Study ◽  
Arterial Blood Pressure ◽  
Mean Arterial Blood Pressure ◽  
Arterial Blood ◽  
Vasopressor Use

Cerebral hemorrhage and edema following brain biopsy in rats: significance of mean arterial blood pressure

2000 ◽  
Vol 92 (1) ◽  
pp. 100-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helene Benveniste ◽  
Katie R. Kim ◽  
Laurence W. Hedlund ◽  
John W. Kim ◽  
Allan H. Friedman
Keyword(s):  
Blood Pressure ◽  
Arterial Blood Pressure ◽  
Mean Arterial Blood Pressure ◽  
Neurosurgical Procedures ◽  
Shr Rats ◽  
Mr Microscopy ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Wky Rats ◽  
Arterial Blood ◽  
Fine Print

Object. It is taken for granted that patients with hypertension are at greater risk for intracerebral hemorrhage during neurosurgical procedures than patients with normal blood pressure. The anesthesiologist, therefore, maintains mean arterial blood pressure (MABP) near the lower end of the autoregulation curve, which in patients with preexisting hypertension can be as high as 110 to 130 mm Hg. Whether patients with long-standing hypertension experience more hemorrhage than normotensive patients after brain surgery if their blood pressure is maintained at the presurgical hypertensive level is currently unknown. The authors tested this hypothesis experimentally in a rodent model.Methods. Hemorrhage and edema in the brain after needle biopsy was measured in vivo by using three-dimensional magnetic resonance (MR) microscopy in the following groups: WKY rats, acutely hypertensive WKY rats, spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR strain), and SHR rats treated with either sodium nitroprusside or nicardipine. Group differences were compared using Tukey's studentized range test followed by individual pairwise comparisons of groups and adjusted for multiple comparisons.There were no differences in PaCO2, pH, and body temperature among the groups. The findings in this study indicated that only acutely hypertensive WKY rats had larger volumes of hemorrhage. Chronically hypertensive SHR rats with MABPs of 130 mm Hg did not have larger hemorrhages than normotensive rats. There were no differences in edema volumes among groups.Conclusions. The brains of SHR rats with elevated systemic MABPs are probably protected against excessive hemorrhage during surgery because of greater resistance in the larger cerebral arteries and, thus, reduced cerebral intravascular pressures.

Cerebroelectrical Depression Following Surfactant Treatment in Preterm Neonates

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 89 (4) ◽  
pp. 643-647 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lena Hellström-Westas ◽  
Nils W. Svenningsen ◽  
Angela H. Bell ◽  
Liselotte Skov ◽  
Gorm Greisen
Keyword(s):  
Blood Pressure ◽  
Arterial Blood Pressure ◽  
Mean Arterial Blood Pressure ◽  
Intraventricular Hemorrhage ◽  
Preterm Neonates ◽  
Cerebral Function ◽  
Surfactant Treatment ◽  
Arterial Blood ◽  
Cerebral Dysfunction ◽  
Almost All

During surfactant treatment of respiratory distress syndrome, 23 premature newborns were investigated with continuous amplitude-integrated electroencephalography (cerebral function monitors). Simultaneously, arterial blood pressure and transcutaneous blood gas values were recorded. A short(<10 minutes) but significant decrease in cerebral activity was seen in almost all neonates immediately after the surfactant instillation, in spite of an improved pulmonary function. In 21 of 23 neonates, a transient fall in mean arterial blood pressure of 9.3 mm Hg (mean) occurred coincidently with the cerebral reaction. Neonates in whom intraventricular hemorrhage developed tended to have lower presurfactant mean arterial blood pressure (P> .05), but they had a significantly lower mean arterial blood pressure after surfactant instillation (P < .05). No other differences were found between neonates in whom intraventricular hemorrhage developed and those without intraventricular hemorrhage. The present findings demonstrate that an acute cerebral dysfunction may occur after surfactant instillation. In some vulnerable neonates with arterial hypotension and severe pulmonary immaturity,the fall in mean arterial blood pressure may increase the risk of cerebral complications and could be related to an unchanged rate of intraventricular hemorrhage after surfactant treatment.

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