A Case Report of Profound Hypotension during Vaginal Hysterectomy in a Geriatric Patient.
10.4097/kjae.1994.27.12.1818
- Author:
Myoung Hun KONG
1
;
Hee Dong YOON
;
Hun CHO
;
Hae Ja LIM
;
Nan Suk KIM
;
Seong Ho CHANG
Author Information
1. Department of Anesthesiology, College of Medicine, Korea University, Seoul, Korea.
- Publication Type:Case Report
- Keywords:
Hypotension;
Geriatrics;
General anesthesia
- MeSH:
Aged;
Anesthesia;
Anesthesia, General;
Bradycardia;
Depression;
Enflurane;
Female;
Geriatrics;
Hemodynamics;
Humans;
Hypotension*;
Hysterectomy, Vaginal*;
Nitrous Oxide;
Oxygen;
Risk Factors
- From:Korean Journal of Anesthesiology
1994;27(12):1818-1821
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
An anesthesiologist should keep in mind the various risk factors during anesthetic man- agement of geriatric patients. Unlike young patients, elderly patients may manifest more than one pathophysiologic process associsted with progressive degenerative changes in various organs. The successful anesthetic management requires detailed information about the cause and severity of the underlying disease, thorough understanding of geriatric specific hemodynamic particularities, and more careful monitoring by experienced personnel. We experienced a case of profound hypotension during general anesthesia for vaginal hysterectomy in a 67 year-old female patient. Anesthesia was induced with thiopental-vecuronium and was maintained with nitrous oxide, oxygen and enflurane. One hundred and five minutes after the induction, profound hypotension and bradycardia with S-T segment depression developed without specific events and were corrected by vigorous therapeutic managements. She discharged from the hospital on 7th postoperative day without complications.
