The evaluation of long term general anaesthesia effects with propofol in 50 adult maxillofacial patients, year 2012

Abstract

Background and objectives: Propofol is an intravenous anaesthesia agent with several advantages and usages in surgeries. But there are some reports regarding adverse effects and death with long-term or even short time propofol infusions with different doses recently, which named propofol infusion syndrome (PRIS). As no prospective study is performed for evaluation of incidence and prevalence of PRIS in long-term maxillofacial surgeries up to now, The purpose of current study was to determine the long-term propofol infusion effects in maxillofacial surgeries.