Online ISSN: 2515-8260

A COMPARISON OF PROPOFOL VERSUS KETOFOL PLUS FENTANYL AS INDUCTION AGENTS ON HEMODYNAMIC PARAMETERS IN PATIENTS UNDERGOING ELECTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES UNDER GENERAL ANESTHESIA

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Krishna Reddy Pingili1 , Raghuveer Chinnapaka2 , Nandaraj Dubbaka3 , M. Sindhura4

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Background: Propofol has gained a lot of popularity and is very commonly used in elective surgeries due to its solubility, rapid induction, quick recovery time along with its amnestic and antiepileptic properties make a potent anesthetic agent. Exclusive uses of propofol to provide LMA might be associated with some undesirable effects which are dose-dependent are like hypotension, respiratory depression, coughing, hiccups, laryngospasm, and movements. Forgoing studies reveled that a combination of ketamine and propofol decreased patients' use of propofol and opioids and improved hemodynamic and respiratory stability. The prime objective of our study is to substantiate the earlier results regarding whether the efficacy of the ketamine-PropofolFentanyl combination has more favorable hemodynamics than the gold standard prototypic induction drug (Propofol) in a cohort of healthy patients and to compare the additional post-operative analgesia requirements between the two groups.

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