Evaluation of propofol anesthesia in morbidly obese children and adolescents

BMC Anesthesiology

Table 2 Propofol dosing and clinical parameters

Dosing characteristic	Mean	SD	Range
Duration of propofol infusion (min)	135	61	41 - 291
Total amount of propofol (mg)	3244	2205	962 - 10507
Propofol dose in mg.kg^-1 h^-1	11.5	3	6.9-17.8
Induction dose (mg.kg^-1 TBW)	1.3	0.5	0.7 - 2.1
Induction dose (mg. kg^-1 ABW)	1.9	0.8	0.9 - 3.2
Fentanyl equivalent doses in μg.h^-1	175	70	50-300
Clinical parameters
Time to induction (min)	1.5	0.5	0.92 - 2.3
Time to eye opening (min)	25.8	22.6	1.5 - 93.7
Incidence of adverse respiratory events	6/20 (30%)
Incidence of awareness	0/20

Table 2: Means, standard deviations (SD) and range of propofol and opioid dosing characteristics received by study subjects, and measured clinical outcomes are tabulated. Induction dose is the calculated dose to achieve clinical end point and is expressed per total body weight (TBW) and adjusted body weight (ABW).

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