A COMPARISON OF THE INCIDENCE OF CARDIAC ARRHYTHMIA DURING TWO METHODS OF ANAESTHESIA FOR DENTAL EXTRACTIONS
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- 1 December 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Elsevier in British Journal of Anaesthesia
- Vol. 48 (12) , 1207-1210
- https://doi.org/10.1093/bja/48.12.1207
Abstract
One hundred premedicated inpatients undergoing wisdom tooth extraction were divided into two groups of 50. Group A was anaesthetized by a technique based on droperidol and phenoperidine, whilst group B was anaesthetized with halothane. The e.c.g. in both groups demonstrated a similar overall incidence of cardiac arrhythmia, but analysis revealed a significantly higher incidence of ventricular arrhythmia in group B. The heart rate was significantly less in group AThis publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit: