de la Paz-Estrada C

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ABSTRACT

We was carried out a prospective study with 28 patients selected at random, entered in the Hospital "Guillermo Luis Fernández Hernández-Baquero", Moa, Holguín, Cuba. From November until February of 2002, that they were intervened in an elective way for abdomen surgery. They presented state physical I and II, according to the Classification of the American Society of Anesthesiologists, which were divided in two groups of 14 patients for each one and whose ages oscillated between 35 and 58 years. They were prescribed with Midazolam 3 mg IV in the preoperative one immediate. It was evaluated electrocardiogram, arterial pressure, heart frequency and pulsioximetry. We apply lumbar epidural anesthesia,where to the group I they were administered Mepivacaine 2% (400 mg), Amethocaine 100 mg, Sulfate of morphine 2 mg; in the group II Mepivacaine 2% was used (400 mg), and Amethocaine 100 mg. Evaluates the time of analgesia according to similar visual scale, sedation level and quality of the analgesia transoperative. You concluded that the time of analgesia was more lingering in the group I with 1377 ± 5.66 minutes and the most frequent complications were found in the same group with 10.7 pruritus %, 21.4% of vomits and 14.3% of retention urinaria.