Clinical Recovery and Psychomotor Function after Brief Anesthesia with Propofol or Thiopental

Recovery of psychomotor function after total intravenous anesthesia with remifentanil–propofol or fentanyl–propofol

“…However, remifentanil [2] and propofol [3] have psychomotor effects in the early recovery stage after continuous infusion, so it may be difficult to evaluate recovery status after TIVA with remifentanil-propofol. Despite this, monitoring of recovery of psychomotor function is recommended for determination of the observation period after TIVA with remifentanil-propofol.…”

Comparison of remifentanil versus fentanyl general anesthesia for short outpatient urologic procedures

“…Numerous studies (7,11,12) have compared propofol and thiopental for induction of anesthesia in the outpatient population and have determined that recovery from propofol occurs significantly more rapidly than from thiopental. Korttila et al (12) found impaired objective performance on psychomotor tests at one hour after propofol with no detectable impairment after three hours. However, subjects who received thiopental had significantly impaired psychomotor performance at five hours after administration.…”

Recovery from outpatient anaesthesia

“…The popularity of propofol for induction of anaesthesia in ambulatory surgery is based on two factors [39]. It provides quick recovery with little residual effect on psychomotor function, and it is associated with less PONV than inhaled anaesthetic agents [ 15,17,47,48]. These two properties allow a clinician to discharge patients early and without side-effects.…”

“…Several studies have measured psychomotor skills related to driving in healthy volunteers after exposure to different analgesics [52], sedatives [53-571, and anaesthetics [44,47,. Many drugs impair psychomotor and cognitive skills for as long as 10-12 h after administration [52, 531.…”