title: [Effect of ethrane on the circulatory parameters of geriatric patients (author's transl)].
abstract: The cardiovascular effects of enflurane in geriatric patients have been compared with the effects of this anaesthetic agent in a group of young patients. The degree of cardiovascular depression in geriatric patients was much greater than in the young patients despite the smaller inspired concentration of enflurane necessary to produce a similar depth of anaesthesia. In comparison with halothane and neuroleptanaesthesia, enflurane produced the greatest decrease in cardiac output. The mean arterial pressure, however, was quite well maintained due to a simultaneous increase in total peripheral resistance.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000768:Anesthesia, General; D001775:Blood Circulation / Q000187:drug effects*; D002302:Cardiac Output / Q000187:drug effects; D004737:Enflurane / Q000494:pharmacology*; D005265:Femoral Neck Fractures / Q000628:therapy; D005593:Fracture Fixation, Internal; D006221:Halothane / Q000494:pharmacology; D006801:Humans; D008738:Methyl Ethers / Q000494:pharmacology*; D011292:Premedication
chemical_list: D008738:Methyl Ethers; D004737:Enflurane; D006221:Halothane
vernacular_title: Wirkung von Ethrane auf die Kreislaufgrössen geriatrischer Patienten