value of IV fluid administration during and after minor surgical procedure

ABSTRACT

This work was designed to study the value of I. V. administration of 1 litre of Ringer lactate solution during and another litre of 5% dextrose solution after minor surgical procedures. Two hundred patients of both sexes undergoing minor operative procedures were the subject of this study.These patients were divided into two equal groups. All patients were premedicated 30 minutes before induction of anaesthesia by 0.01 mg/Kg atropine sulphate I.M. Anaesthesia was induced by thiopentone Na and maintained under fluothane and oxygen. The first group was not given any I.V. fluids during and 6 hours after operation and served as conrrol group. The, second group was given 1 litre of Ringer lactate solution during operation and another litre of 5% dextrose solution postoperatively and served as treated group. From this study it was found that, fluid administration during and after minor surgical procedures enhanced the recovery from anaesthesia, decreased the commonly occuring bad post-operative subjective feelings, amelurated extracellular fluid volume and tonicity changes and prevented fat utilization