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Canadian Journal of Anesthesia, Vol 37, 245-249, Copyright © 1990 by Canadian Anesthesiologists' Society

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Attenuated sympathetic tone augments nitrous oxide-induced myocardial depression during high-dose fentanyl anaesthesia in dogs

Y Anzai, T Nishikawa and A Namiki
Department of Anaesthesiology, Sapporo Medical College and Hospital, Japan.

The purpose of this study was to determine whether centrally mediated sympathetic tone exerts compensatory effects on nitrous oxide-induced myocardial depression during high-dose fentanyl anaesthesia. The cardiovascular responses to 60 minutes of nitrous oxide administration after fentanyl, 100 micrograms.kg-1, were examined in 18 dogs with or without autonomic blockade induced by hexamethonium. Decreases of cardiac output and left ventricular stroke work were significantly greater in dogs with autonomic blockade (n = 9) by about 20 per cent of baseline values than in dogs without autonomic blockade (n = 9) at 30, 45, and 60 min. Similarly, left ventricular dP/dt was reduced more in dogs with autonomic blockade than in dogs without autonomic blockade, but this difference was only significant at the 60-min period. It is concluded that the sympathetic nervous system provides partial compensation for myocardial depression induced by nitrous oxide in the presence of high-dose fentanyl, suggesting that large doses of fentanyl do not ablate the centrally mediated sympathomimetic effects of nitrous oxide.




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