Adequacy of Preoperative Resuscitation in Laparoscopic Pyloromyotomy and Anesthetic Emergence.

CONCLUSIONS: Preoperative serum bicarbonate was positively associated with median anesthetic emergence time in a linear manner for values ≥24 mEq/L, although this correlation may not appear to be clinically substantial per 1 mEq/L unit. However, when preoperative serum bicarbonate levels were dichotomized at a commonly used presurgical threshold, the difference in median emergence time between ≥30 and <30 mEq/L was an estimated 5.4 minutes (95% CI, 3.1-7.8 minutes; P < .001).
PMID: 31567473 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Anesthesia and Analgesia - September 23, 2019 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: Gilbertson LE, Fiedorek CS, Fiedorek MC, Lam H, Austin TM Tags: Anesth Analg Source Type: research