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Effect of flunitrazepam (Rohypnol) on awareness during anaesthesia for caesarean section
O A Soyannwo1, E O Elegbe, C O Odugbesan
1Department of Anaesthesia, University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria.
African Journal of Medicine and Medical Sciences
|March 1, 1988
Abstract:
The incidence of awareness was compared in three groups of patients undergoing elective or emergency Caesarean section, using pethidine alone or pethidine plus flunitrazepam (Rohypnol), as adjuvants to nitrous oxide: oxygen, muscle relaxant technique of general anaesthesia. The use of 0.03 mg/kg body weight of flunitrazepam was associated with a low incidence (4%) of awareness, cardiovascular stability, postoperative sedation and anterograde amnesia. The reduced incidence of awareness is probably due to increased depth of anaesthesia and anterograde amnesic effect produced by the drug.