肛肠手术辅用力月西和丙泊酚的镇静遗忘作用

目的观察低位硬膜外麻醉下肛肠手术辅用力月西和丙泊酚的镇静和遗忘作用。方法对66例患者随机分为A、B两组,分别辅用力月西和丙泊酚,观察镇静和遗忘作用及血压、心率和呼吸变化。结果两组镇静评估的比较无显著性差异(P﹤0.05);遗忘率不同,B组患者遗忘率低于A组。结论丙泊酚和力月西辅用于低位硬膜外麻醉下肛肠外科手术,都达到了良好的镇静作用,力月西更具有良好的顺行性遗忘作用。     

The safety of patient-controlled sedation

We have investigated the safety of a previously described method of patient-controlled sedation in 100 healthy patients presenting for elective surgery. The device used 0.33-ml boluses of propofol (10 mg.ml⁻¹) infused over 6 s with no lockout. All patients attempted to put themselves to sleep by pressing a button on the hand-held device. The oxygen saturation, heart rate, sedation score and airway patency were noted every minute. When the patient stopped pressing the button, the anaesthetist took over the handset and continued pressing the button until the patient became unresponsive. The system allowed rapid sedation. Only five patients were still anxious after 2 min. After 3 min, no patient was still anxious and more than 70 patients had slurred speech. When they stopped pressing the button, 11 patients were judged oversedated, of whom two were unresponsive. One patient's oxygen saturation decreased transiently to 84%: no other patient's oxygen saturation decreased below 90%. There were no other significant changes. We conclude that the system studied works well but carries too high a risk of oversedation for unsupervised use.     

静脉镇静镇痛技术在隆乳术中的临床应用

目的介绍静脉镇静镇痛技术在局部麻醉隆乳术中的应用效果和体会。方法将606例ASAⅠ、Ⅱ级隆乳术患者分为四组,分别采用负荷剂量后持续输注异丙酚-芬太尼(P-F组,n=56)、咪唑安定-芬太尼(M-F组,n=130)、异丙酚-芬太尼-氯胺酮(P-F-K组,n=68)或咪唑安定-芬太尼-氯胺酮(M-F-K组,n=352)复合液的给药方法,调整注速维持镇静深度在改良的警觉/镇静评分2或3分。结果四组患者术中的镇静镇痛效果均满意,呼吸循环功能基本稳定,均在停药3~10min后清醒,但P-F-K组和M-F-K组患者的术中疼痛发生率及程度显著低于P-F组和M-F组。术后随访所有患者均对麻醉效果满意,仅P-F组和P-F-K组分别有11例和5例患者有模糊术中记忆。结论镇静镇痛技术是适用于隆乳局部麻醉手术简单、安全有效的理想麻醉方法,复合使用小剂量氯胺酮能明显减少术中疼痛的发生率,其中以咪-芬-氯复合镇静镇痛的术中疼痛和记忆发生率最低,程度最轻,是适于该手术的最佳镇静镇痛方法。     

Genotype-dependent effects of GABAergic agents on sedative properties of ethanol

Two lines of mice, selectively bred for differential sensitivity to the soporific effects of ethanol (ETOH), were administered GABAergic drugs in an effort to evaluate a role for GABA in ETOH sensitivity. ETOH sensitive Long-Sleep mice (LS) showed potentiated ETOH sedation when administered bicuculline, muscimol and aminooxyacetic acid (AOAA). ETOH-insensitive SS mice exhibited reduced ETOH sedation in the presence of the antagonists, bicuculline and picrotoxin, and potentiated sedation in the presence of muscimol and AOAA. These changes in narcosis duration were interpreted as central effects, since blood ethanol levels at waking from ETOH sedation varied with GABAergic drug treatment. Picrotoxin antagonized pentobarbital-induced nacrosis in both lines, but to a greater extent in SS mice. These and other experiments with a genetically heterogeneous stock suggest GABA involvement in genotype-dependent ETOH sensitivity, but do not support a simple role of GABA receptor involvement.     

Psychological and clinical effects of renal biopsy performed using sedation

.A sedation regimen using sequential oral trinepazine, intravenous Pethco (pethidine, chlorpromazine and promethazine) and diazemuls was evaluated in children having native kidney (n = 17) and transplant kidney (n = 17) biopsies. Biopsy was successful in all cases, with no serious side effects. A self-reported scale of memory recall and pain perception showed the optimal time for biopsy to be between 30 and 90 min after the intravenous Pethco. The child’s level of distress was measured by a self-reported scale, a parent-reported scale and an observational scale for doctors and nurses; 45% of children rated themselves highly distressed prior to the procedure, their parents being the best assessors of this distress. Younger children and those undergoing native kidney biopsy had less understanding of the procedure. Children’s worries could be clearly categorised into procedural and outcome issues: those undergoing transplant biopsy were more worried about outcome, whereas those undergoing native kidney biopsy were more worried about the procedure. Received April 3, 1995; received in revised form and accepted April 17, 1996     

Soft tissue pseudotumor following intramuscular injection of “DPT”: a pitfall in magnetic resonance imaging

We report the time-dependent magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) changes that resulted from an intramuscular injection of a commonly-used pediatric sedation regimen (DPT). These changes at the site of injection consist of a focal abnormality characterized by a slight increase in signal intensity on T1 weighted images and markedly increased signal intensity on T2 weighted images. Alterations in signal are detectable almost immediately after the injection and progress over the first 31 hours. This abnormality, which could be mistaken for real disease, persists up to 36 days following injection.     

Dexmedetomidine versus propofol for prolonged sedation in critically ill trauma and surgical patients

Backgroundand Purpose: Currently, dexmedetomidine versus propofol has primarily been studied in medical and cardiac surgery patients with outcomes indicating safe and effective sedation. The purpose of this study was to assess the efficacy of dexmedetomidine versus propofol for prolonged sedation in trauma and surgical patients.MethodsThis was a single-center prospective study conducted in the Trauma/Surgical Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at a Level I academic trauma center. It included patients 18 years of age or older requiring mechanical ventilation who were randomly assigned based on unit bed location to receive either dexmedetomidine or propofol. The primary outcome was duration of mechanical ventilation. Secondary outcomes included mortality; proportion of time in target sedation; incidence of delirium, hypotension, and bradycardia; and ICU and hospital length of stay (LOS).ResultsA total of 57 patients were included. Baseline characteristics were similar between groups. There was no significant difference in duration of mechanical ventilation (median [IQR]) between the dexmedetomidine (78.5[125] hours) and propofol (105[130] hours; p = 0.15) groups. There was no difference between groups in ICU mortality, ICU and hospital LOS, or incidence of delirium. Safety outcomes were also similar. Patients in the dexmedetomidine group spent a significantly greater percentage of time in target sedation (98[8] %) compared to propofol group (92[10] %; p = 0.02).ConclusionsOur results suggest that, similar to medical and cardiac surgery patients, dexmedetomidine and propofol are safe and effective sedation agents in critically ill trauma and surgical patients; however, dexmedetomidine achieves target sedation better than propofol for this specific population.     

Effects of lorazepam upon recollective experience in recognition memory

The effects of lorazepam (2 mg) and placebo upon recognition memory with and without conscious recollection were assessed in a cross-over study with normal volunteers. When recognising a word from study lists presented before and 1, 3 and 5 h after drug administration, subjects were required to indicate whether they could consciously recollect the word's prior occurrence or recognised it on the basis of knowing; in the absence of conscious recollection. Lorazepam only impaired word recognition which was accompanied by conscious recollection, and further, the level of this impairment correlated significantly with each of three different indices of subjects' arousal at the time of presentation of each list. Recognition in the absence of conscious recollection was not impaired but somewhat heightened by lorazepam, and these effects did not significantly relate to any index of arousal. These findings are interpreted as providing further support for the notion that recognition entails two distinct components, one based on contextual and associative information and related to conscious recollection, the other possibly based on a traceless perceptual or semantic memory system and related to feelings of knowing in the absence of conscious recollection. Implications are drawn for a contextual-encoding/retrieval account of lorazepam-induced amnesia.