ATROPINE REVERSAL OF HYPERCARBIA DURING ENFLURANE ANAESTHESIA
Open Access
- 1 March 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Elsevier in British Journal of Anaesthesia
- Vol. 51 (3) , 221-226
- https://doi.org/10.1093/bja/51.3.221
Abstract
Atropine was given i.v. to 35 spontaneously breathing healthy adults anaesthetized with enflurane to determine if it would reduce Paco2 by improving gas exchange. Five minutes after administration of atropine, Paco2, decreased from mean 7.18 to 6.65 kPa ( —7%), while mean E increased from 4.8 to 6.1 litre min−1 ( + 27%). These changes were maintained 15 min later in the 20 patients studied at that time. Older and more obese patients showed a more significant change. Respiratory frequency and Pao2 did not alter.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: