[Electrostimulation anesthesia in comparison with enflurane-nitrous-oxide anesthesia during gynecologic operations....

Concerning twenty-two gynaecological abdomen laparotomies, electrostimulation anaesthesia was opposed to inhalation anaesthesia with nitrous oxide-enflurane. Electrostimulation anaesthesia (ESA) was compared to a nitrous oxide-enflurane technique among two groups of eleven patients each scheduled for gynecological abdominal surgery. The present part of this communication concerns the description of the anesthetic techniques, reactions of the cardiocirculatory system, consumption of muscular relaxants and of analgetics supplementation intraoperatively and during recovery. While heart rate remained fairly normal in both groups, mean arterial pressure in the ESA group increased by 20% of the preanesthetic level as compared to a 10% increase in the enflurane group. It is felt that electrostimulation anaesthesia can be effectively employed even in abdominal surgery. However in cardiac risk patients this technique should not be considered.