Evaluation of caudal epidural anesthesia efficacy by measurement of feet skin temperature in children

Caudal epidural anesthesia in children is not performed in pure form, but only in combination with superficial general anesthesia. Therefore, a search for reliable evaluation criteria of the caudal epidural block onset in children remains actual. Aim. To evaluate effectiveness of caudal epidural...

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Main Author: M. Yu. Kurochkin
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Language:English
Published: Zaporizhzhia State Medical and Pharmaceutical University 2015-04-01
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Online Access:http://zmj.zsmu.edu.ua/article/view/42118/38446
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description Caudal epidural anesthesia in children is not performed in pure form, but only in combination with superficial general anesthesia. Therefore, a search for reliable evaluation criteria of the caudal epidural block onset in children remains actual. Aim. To evaluate effectiveness of caudal epidural anesthesia efficacy by measurement of feet skin temperature in children. Methods and results. We investigated feet skin temperature before the caudal blockade by bupivacaine and after 15–20 minutes in 30 children. The control group included 20 children who underwent total intravenous anesthesia. The study showed that feet skin temperature after caudal blockade significantly increased from 30,1±0,15°C to 33,0±0,1°C (10%) and in the control group it did not change significantly. Conclusion. Thus, feet skin thermometry may be considered to be a reliable non-invasive method for assessing the onset of the caudal block.
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spelling doaj-art-4910d0a097be4591aaf1e038cd713db82025-08-20T02:17:46ZengZaporizhzhia State Medical and Pharmaceutical UniversityZaporožskij Medicinskij Žurnal2306-41452310-12102015-04-0128385http://dx.doi.org/10.14739/2310-1210.2015.2.42118Evaluation of caudal epidural anesthesia efficacy by measurement of feet skin temperature in childrenM. Yu. KurochkinCaudal epidural anesthesia in children is not performed in pure form, but only in combination with superficial general anesthesia. Therefore, a search for reliable evaluation criteria of the caudal epidural block onset in children remains actual. Aim. To evaluate effectiveness of caudal epidural anesthesia efficacy by measurement of feet skin temperature in children. Methods and results. We investigated feet skin temperature before the caudal blockade by bupivacaine and after 15–20 minutes in 30 children. The control group included 20 children who underwent total intravenous anesthesia. The study showed that feet skin temperature after caudal blockade significantly increased from 30,1±0,15°C to 33,0±0,1°C (10%) and in the control group it did not change significantly. Conclusion. Thus, feet skin thermometry may be considered to be a reliable non-invasive method for assessing the onset of the caudal block.http://zmj.zsmu.edu.ua/article/view/42118/38446Caudal AnesthesiaChildSkin TemperatureHemodynamics
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Evaluation of caudal epidural anesthesia efficacy by measurement of feet skin temperature in children
Zaporožskij Medicinskij Žurnal
Caudal Anesthesia
Child
Skin Temperature
Hemodynamics
title Evaluation of caudal epidural anesthesia efficacy by measurement of feet skin temperature in children
title_full Evaluation of caudal epidural anesthesia efficacy by measurement of feet skin temperature in children
title_fullStr Evaluation of caudal epidural anesthesia efficacy by measurement of feet skin temperature in children
title_full_unstemmed Evaluation of caudal epidural anesthesia efficacy by measurement of feet skin temperature in children
title_short Evaluation of caudal epidural anesthesia efficacy by measurement of feet skin temperature in children
title_sort evaluation of caudal epidural anesthesia efficacy by measurement of feet skin temperature in children
topic Caudal Anesthesia
Child
Skin Temperature
Hemodynamics
url http://zmj.zsmu.edu.ua/article/view/42118/38446
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