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Vanita Sarin
India
Research Article
A Study to Evaluate the Effectiveness of Clonidine vs Atenolol in Providing
Optimal Surgical Field in Nasal Surgeries under General Anaesthesia
Author(s): Amrinder Singh, Ruchi Gupta, Tripat Bindra, KS Aujla, Anuradha Arya and Vanita SarinAmrinder Singh, Ruchi Gupta, Tripat Bindra, KS Aujla, Anuradha Arya and Vanita Sarin
Aim: The present study was done to evaluate the role of oral clonidine and atenolol in providing optimal surgical field in nasal surgeries under general anaesthesia.
Material and methods: 60 patients of ASA grade I & II posted for elective nasal surgeries were randomly divided into two groups of 30 each. Patients received 50 mg oral atenolol in group A and 100 ug oral clonidine in group B two hours prior to surgery. Induction and maintainence of anaesthesia was performed by the same standard protocol. Heart rate, systolic and diastolic blood pressure were recorded during the intra-operative and post-operative period. The surgeon, blinded to group allocation, evaluated the quality of surgical field using a predefined Average Category Scale (ACS). The amount of total blood loss was also recorded.
Results: The heart r.. View More»
DOI:
10.4172/2155-6148.1000396