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Canadian Journal of Anesthesia, Vol 27, 132-134, Copyright © 1980 by Canadian Anesthesiologists' Society

Arterial Hypoxaemia Following Premedication in Patients with Coronary Artery Disease

ERCUMENT A. KOPMAN 1 and REBECCA C. RAMIREZ-INAWAT 1

1 Department of Anesthesiology, Washington University School of Medicine, 660 South Euclid Avenue, St. Louis, Missouri, 63110

The effect of premedication with morphine and scopolamine, morphine alone, and scopolamine alone on arterial oxygen tension has been studied in patients with coronary artery disease undergoing bypass operations.

Control arterial blood samples were obtained with the patients in the supine position breathing room air the day before operation. A second arterial blood sample was taken in the induction room with the patient breathing room air in the supine position.

In the first group (scopolamine only) and second group (morphine only) cH+(pH), Pacoco2 and Paoo2 did not change. In the third group (morphine and scopolamine), however, Paoo2 decreased, while Pacoco2 and cH+ increased (pH decreased). The changes in cH+ and Pacoco2 were statistically significant, but of no clinical importance.

The present study suggests that, when morphine and scopolamine premedication is used for patients with coronary artery disease, simultaneous administration of oxygen is important in helping to eliminate a possible cause of preoperative myocardial ischaemia.






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