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  • Title: Cerebral blood flow, cerebral metabolic rate of oxygen and relative CO2-reactivity during craniotomy for supratentorial cerebral tumours in halothane anaesthesia. A dose-response study.
    Author: Madsen JB, Cold GE, Hansen ES, Bardrum B.
    Journal: Acta Anaesthesiol Scand; 1987 Jul; 31(5):454-7. PubMed ID: 3115047.
    Abstract:
    Fourteen patients were studied during craniotomy for small supratentorial cerebral tumours. Cerebral blood flow (CBF) and cerebral metabolic rate of oxygen (CMRO2) were measured twice by a modification of the Kety-Schmidt technique using 133Xe intravenously. Anaesthesia was induced with thiopental 4-6 mg kg-1, fentanyl and pancuronium, and maintained with an inspiratory halothane concentration of 0.45% in nitrous oxide 67% at a moderate hypocapnic level. In one group of patients (n = 7) the inspiratory halothane concentration was maintained at 0.45% throughout anaesthesia. About 1 h after induction of anaesthesia CBF and CMRO2 averaged 35 +/- 2 ml 100 g-1 min-1 and 2.7 +/- 0.3 ml O2 100 g-1 min-1 (mean +/- s.c. mean), respectively. During repeat studies 1 h later CBF and CMRO2 did not change. In another group of patients (n = 7) an increase in halothane concentration from 0.45% to 0.90% was associated with a significant decrease in CMRO2 from 2.3 +/- 0.1 to 2.0 +/- 0.1 ml O2 100 g-1 min-1. The CO2-reactivity measured after the second flow measurement was preserved. It is concluded that halothane in this study induces a dose-dependent decrease in cerebral metabolism, an increase in CBF while CO2-reactivity is maintained.
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