Ketamine versus propofol for strabismus surgery in children.
OBJECTIVE
To compare the effects of intravenous infusion of ketamine and propofol anesthesia in children undergoing strabismus surgery.


METHODS
Sixty pediatric patients aged 4-11 years were enrolled for the study. Patients in Group K were infused ketamine 1-3 mg/kg/hr (n = 30) and patients in Group P were infused with propofol 6-9 mg/kg/hr (n = 30). After giving fentanyl 1 mug/kg and rocuronium bromide 0.5 mg/kg, patients were intubated.


RESULTS
The consumption of anesthetics (P = 0.0001) and antiemetics (P = 0.004), the incidence of oculocardiac reflex (P = 0.02) in Group K were significantly lower than in Group P. The recovery time (P = 0.008), postoperative agitation score (P = 0.005), Face Pain Scale (P = 0.001), Ramsay Sedation Score (P = 0.01) during awakening and at postoperative 30th min (P = 0.02) in Group K were significantly lower than in Group P. The postoperative agitation score during awakening was significantly lower than the preoperative values in Group K (P = 0.0001).


CONCLUSIONS
The infusion of ketamine is more advantageous than the infusion of propofol in children for use in strabismus surgery.
Mizrak
Ayse
A
Anesthesiology and Reanimation, Gaziantep University School of Medicine, Gaziantep, Turkey.
Erbagci
Ibrahim
I
Arici
Tulin
T
Ozcan
Ibrahim
I
Ganidagli
Suleyman
S
Tatar
Gurkan
G
Oner
Unsal
U
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