Tracheal resection and primary reconstruction is a feasible surgical procedure for patients with thyroid cancer infiltrating the upper aerodigestive tract, with good clinical outcomes. However, the morbidity of the procedure mandates careful case selection, airway management and meticulous surgical technique.
Introduction: From the early 1970’s, laparoscopic procedures became well established because of their advantages like excellent visualisation, improved cosmesis, reduced postoperative pain and reduced hospital stay. Despite its advantages, laparoscopic surgeries have its demerits such as pneumoperitoneum and positional changes. Alpha-2 agonists have shown promising results in attenuating the stress response in laparoscopic surgeries. Aim: To compare clonidine and dexmedetomidine in attenuating haemodynamic stress response during laparoscopic lower abdominal oncosurgeries. Materials and Methods: A randomised controlled trial was conducted at Kidwai Memorial Institute of Oncology, Bangalore, Karnataka, India, during the period of December 2018 to May 2019. Institutional Ethical Committee clearance was obtained for the trial. Total 48 patients were recruited into two groups with 24 participants in each group: A (clonidine) and B (dexmedetomidine). Both drugs were infused at a dose of 1 μg/kg for 15 minutes along with premedication before induction. Haemodynamic stress response was estimated using parameters like Heart Rate (HR), systolic and diastolic blood pressure and mean arterial pressure at induction, pneumoperitoneum and at extubation. All the data were analysed using the statistical software R (V3.6.2). Continuous data were presented in the form of Mean±Standard Deviation (SD). The difference in mean value of the various parameters between the two groups was analysed using Student’s t-test. A p-value of <0.05 was considered to be significant. Results: Patients in both the groups were comparable with regards to demographic features. The mean age was 46.76±8.17 years, 46.24±9.70 years and weight was 55.76±7.28 and 56.08±6.06 for group A and group B, respectively. There were statistically significant differences in attenuating stress response in dexmedetomidine compared to clonidine group. Statistically significant reduction in the HR was noticed in group B as compared to group A at 12 minutes of infusion (p=0.008), at the end of infusion (p=0.008), before intubation (p=0.005), 10 minutes after intubation (p=0.008) and after pneumoperitoneum (p=0.045). Group B which was given dexmedetomidine drug compared to group A with clonidine drug showed better attenuation of the systolic blood pressure during extubation (p=0.006). Conclusion: To conclude, both clonidine and dexmedetomidine effectively attenuate the haemodynamic response in patients undergoing laparoscopic lower abdominal oncosurgeries when administered as intravenous bolus dose. In addition, the dexmedetomidine attenuates haemodynamic responses better than clonidine.
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Introduction: Epidural analgesia has emerged as one of the preferred and convenient modes of intraoperative and postoperative management owing to advantage of not interfering with metabolic functions, better tolerability and decrease in reflex activity, similar analgesic properties, less motor blockade and decreased propensity of cardiotoxicity. Neuraxial opioids like fentanyl used in epidural analgesia offer advantage of augmenting local anaesthetic effect and reducing the anaesthetic and analgesic requirement. Aim: To compare the adequacy of analgesia, requirement of rescue analgesics between 0.2% ropivacaine and 0.2% ropivacaine with 2 mcg/cc fentanyl. Materials and Methods: The randomised clinical study was carried out from September 2016 to May 2018 in 70 patients (35 in each group) of American Society of Anaesthesiologists (ASA) 1 and 2 scheduled for elective lower abdominal oncological surgeries. The anaesthetic intervention in group R was 0.2 % ropivacaine and group RF was 0.2% ropivacaine with 2 mcg/cc fentanyl. All data was statistically analyzed and compared using Student t-test, Chi-square/Fisher-Exact test. The p-value <0.05 was considered to be significant. Results: Both the groups were compatible with regard to demographic data and haemodynamic variables. The mean Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) were higher in group R compared to group RF at 0, 2, 4, 12, 18 and 24 hours but the observed difference in both the groups was not statistically significant except at 1 and 6 hours. Number of rescue analgesics as epidural boluses (p-value=0.007) and paracetamol (p-value=0.022) requirement were more in group R compared to group RF respectively. Conclusion: On account of adequate postoperative analgesia, haemodynamic stability, ropivacaine with fentanyl is a better option than ropivacaine alone for epidural infusion.
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