Korean J Anesthesiol.  1986 Oct;19(5):481-487.

Clinical study on the Occurence of Cardiac Arrhythmia on the Electrocardiogram during Anesthesia in the Old Patients

• Kim CE
• Kim IS
• Chung KS

Abstract

After analyzing the electrocardiographic findings during anesthesia, we estimated the difference in the incidence of the operative arrhythmia according to preoperative electrocardiographic findings and compared the influence on the occurrence of the operative arrhythmia according to the type of anesthesia(general and spinal) and major inhalational anesthetics. The results were as follows: 1) On the preanesthetic electrocardiographic findings, the number of patients with only normal rhythm was 15 cases. 2) During anesthesia arrhythmias appeared in 15 patients(305) and the most frquent arrhythymis was premsture ventricular contraction. 3) Between the patients with normal presnesthetic electrocardiographic findings and abnormal electrocardiographic finedings, the incidences of operative arrythmias were not significantly different. 4) Thirty percent of patients developed the arrhythmia both in general and spinal anesthesia. 5) The incidence of arrhythmia in halothane and enflurane aneshtesia was respectively 32% and 28% but the difference was not significant.

MeSH Terms

Anesthesia*
Anesthesia, Spinal
Anesthetics
Arrhythmias, Cardiac*
Electrocardiography*
Enflurane
Halothane
Humans
Incidence
Anesthetics
Enflurane
Halothane