General Anesthesia for a Patient with Hypoglycemia. |
Joon Ho Kim, Un Kim, Jung Un Lee, Ik Soo Kim, Se Jin Choi, Young Kun Kim |
1Department of Anesthesiology, Chungnam National University, School of Medicine, Daejon, Korea. 2Department of Internal Medicine, Chungnam National University, School of Medicine, Daejon, Korea. |
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Abstract |
The authors reported an anesthetic experience with removal of a pancreas B-cell tumor in a 43 year old man. Thiopental sodium was used for i duction, followed by ether-oxygen supplemented with pancuronium for muscle relaxation. An endotracheal semiclosed circle absorption technique with controlled ventilation was emploged. The patient well tolerated both the anesthesia and surgery but he showed a marked increase of blood glucose level with intermittent administration of 50% glucose solution and ether inhalation. |
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