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Anesth Analg 1986; 65:166-170
© 1986 International Anesthesia Research Society
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Narcotics Decrease Heart Rate during Inhalational Anesthesia

Michael K. Cahalan, MD, Frank W. Lurz, MA, Edmond I. Eger, II, MD, Lawrence A. Schwartz, MD, Paul N. Beaupre, MD, and John S. Smith, MD

Department of Anesthesia, University of California Medical Center, San Francisco, California.

Abstract

We determined the heart rate (HR) response to enflurane, halothane, and isoflurane and the effects of narcotics on this response in 81 healthy patients scheduled for elective surgery. Patients were randomly assigned to one of six treatment groups: one of the three anesthetics (approximately 0.9 MAC) in 60% nitrous oxide, and either 0.15 mg/kg of intramuscular morphine 30–60 min before induction or 1 Hg/kg of IV fentanyl 10 min after skin incision. All patients received diazepam, 10 mg orally, 60–90 min before anesthesia, a rapid sequence intravenous induction, and mechanically controlled ventilation. During inhalational anesthesia and the first 10 min of surgery, no significant change in HR occurred in any group (compared to the preinduction HR), although patients given morphine premedication tended to have a decreased HR and those not given morphine premedication tended to have an increased HR. These trends partially account for significant differences that emerged between groups after induction of anesthesia. Patients given morphine premedication and halothane had lower HR (64 ± 3 SEM) than patients given isoflurane (80 ± 3) or enflurane (84 ± 3) and no morphine premedication. Patients anesthetized with enflurane and morphine premedication had lower HR (71 ± 3) than patients given enflurane without morphine premedication. Administration of fentanyl 10 min after incision (these patients had received no morphine) significantly decreased HR in the presence of any of the vapors. We conclude that inhalational anesthetics used in the clinical setting we employed do not significantly increase heart rate, and that prior administration of morphine or concurrent administration of fentanyl may significantly decrease HR.

Key Words: ANESTHETICS, volatile—enflurane, halothane, isoflurane. • ANALGESICS—fentanyl, morphine. • HEART—pulse rate.






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