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Canadian Journal of Anesthesia, Vol 14, 407-412, Copyright © 1967 by Canadian Anesthesiologists' Society

Halothane for Controlled Hypotension in Back Surgery

G. W. SLEATH B.A., M.D., F.R.C.P.(C)1 and L. T. ARCHER M.D.1

1 Department of Anaesthesiology, Vancouver General Hospital, and the Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia

A technique is described for utilizing halothane and controlled ventilation to produce deliberate, controllable hypotensive anaesthesia for laminectomy, spinal fusion, and the combined operation. A series of 140 cases is presented, in 102 of which patients were anaesthetized with halothane. Seventy-one patients had a systolic blood pressure drop of 30 mm. Hg or greater during the procedure, and had significantly less bleeding than those whose operations were performed with a pressure drop of 0-29 mm. Hg. Possible adverse side-effects are discussed.

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Presented at the Annual Meeting, Western Division, Canadian Anaesthetists' Society, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, March 30, 1967.






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