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. 2017 Feb;96(7):e6148.
doi: 10.1097/MD.0000000000006148.

Planning for operating room efficiency and faster anesthesia wake-up time in open major upper abdominal surgery

Hou-Chuan Lai  1 , Shun-Ming Chan, Chueng-He Lu, Chih-Shung Wong, Chen-Hwan Cherng, Zhi-Fu Wu
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Planning for operating room efficiency and faster anesthesia wake-up time in open major upper abdominal surgery

Hou-Chuan Lai et al. Medicine (Baltimore). 2017 Feb.

Abstract

Reducing anesthesia-controlled time (ACT) may improve operation room (OR) efficiency result from different anesthetic techniques. However, the information about the difference in ACT between desflurane (DES) anesthesia and propofol-based total intravenous anesthesia (TIVA) techniques for open major upper abdominal surgery under general anesthesia (GA) is not available in the literature.This retrospective study uses our hospital database to analyze the ACT of open major upper abdominal surgery without liver resection after either desflurane/fentanyl-based anesthesia or TIVA via target-controlled infusion with fentanyl/propofol from January 2010 to December 2011. The various time intervals including waiting for anesthesia time, anesthesia time, surgical time, extubation time, exit from OR after extubation, total OR time, and postanesthetic care unit (PACU) stay time and percentage of prolonged extubation (≥15 minutes) were compared between these 2 anesthetic techniques.We included data from 343 patients, with 159 patients receiving TIVA and 184 patients receiving DES. The only significant difference is extubation time, TIVA was faster than the DES group (8.5 ± 3.8 vs 9.4 ± 3.7 minutes; P = 0.04). The factors contributed to prolonged extubation were age, gender, body mass index, DES anesthesia, and anesthesia time.In our hospital, propofol-based TIVA by target-controlled infusion provides faster emergence compared with DES anesthesia; however, it did not improve OR efficiency in open major abdominal surgery. Older, male gender, higher body mass index, DES anesthesia, and lengthy anesthesia time were factors that contribute to extubation time.

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Figure 1
The flow diagram. DES = desflurane anesthesia, TIVA = total intravenous anesthesia.
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