COMPARISON OF SEVOFLURANE AND ISOFLURANE FOR RECOVERY FROM ANAESTHESIA IN LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY

Abstract

Background: Recovery from anaesthesia is very important aspect in terms of
morbidity, hospital stay and cost effectiveness. Since last two to three decades
anaesthesia has evolved with different intravenous and inhalational anaesthetic agent.
Inhalational anaesthetic agent found to be better for rapid recovery as they are easily
washed out through lungs with minimal metabolism in body. Isoflurane and
sevoflurane are routinely used inhalational anaesthetic agent which have different
recovery time. Short recovery time is useful in day care surgeries as well as less
hospital stay and less postoperative complications. That is why this research, titled
“Comparison of sevoflurane and isoflurane for recovery from anaesthesia in
laparoscopic surgery” was done
Methods: After institutional ethical committee clearance and informed consent from
the patients, 80 patients of either sex, aged 18-65 years, belonging to ASA I and II
were enrolled in the study. The patients were allocated into two groups of 40 patients
each. Group -S: received sevoflurane 1.8% Group –I received isoflurane 1.15%
Results: 02(5%) patients in Isoflurane group and 18(45%) patients in sevoflurane
group had recovery time 4-8 min. The mean recovery time of patients who were
given sevoflurane (group S=8.58+-1.56) is less compared to patients who were given
isoflurane (group I=12.18+-2.14). This difference was statistically significant.
Conclusions: Our study found rapid recovery with sevoflurane as compared to
isoflurane from anaesthesia in patients who underwent laparoscopic surgeries.