Abstract
A double-blind, randomized study was conducted in 16 patients who were anesthetized with 50% nitrous oxide in oxygen and given either 0.17 mg/kg butorphanol or 0.86 mg/kg nalbuphine, and whose respiratory depression was assessed by the response of minute ventilation to increasing carbon dioxide concentrations. The slopes of the carbon dioxide ventilatory response curves [delta VE/delta PCO2(L.min-1 X %CO2(-1)] were 7.45 +/- 1.17 with nalbuphine and 2.42 +/- 0.56 with butorphanol. Butorphanol caused significantly (P less than 0.025) greater respiratory depression than nalbuphine. The results of this study caution against the indiscriminate use of butorphanol in the perianesthetic setting.
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