【Abstract】Objective To compare and analyze the anesthetic effect of dexmedetomidine on patients who would undergo escharectomy and skin-grafting due to extensive burn and its influence on these patients’ stress response. Methods Sixty patients who would undergo escharectomy and skin-grafting due to extensive burn in Xinyang Central Hospital from January 2016 to December 2018 were selected as subjects and then divided, according to random number table, into an experiment group (30 cases) and a control group (30 cases). Before anesthesia induction and during maintenance of anesthesia, patients in the experiment group were intervened with dexmedetomidine whereas patients in the control group were treated with normal saline. Operation related indicators such as graft area, blood loss in operation, duration of operation as well as changes of heart rate, arterial blood pressure, epinephrine, norepinephrine, cortisol and blood glucose level at different time points in the two groups were compared and analyzed. Results After anesthesia induction and at the end of escharectomy, skin removal, skin grafting and operation, the heart rate and arterial blood pressure of patients in the two groups increased first and then decreased (experiment group: F = 13.450, 18.120, all P = 0.000; control group: F = 45.330, 51.930, all P = 0.000) and no significant difference was observed in arterial blood pressure between the two groups after anesthesia induction (t = 1.820, P = 0.074), but the heart rate and arterial blood pressure of patients in the control group were significantly higher than those in the experiment group at other time points (heart rate: t = 5.875, 9.657, 9.523, 7.435, 5.425, all P = 0.000; arterial blood pressure: t = 12.582, 11.017, 12.061, 5.705, all P = 0.000) and the results of comparison showed statistically significant difference. After anesthesia induction and at the end of escharectomy, skin removal, skin grafting and operation, the blood glucose levels of patients in the experiment group and the levels of epinephrine, norepinephrine, cortisol, and blood glucose in the control group increased first and then decreased (F = 3.694, 30.140, 2.934, 21.840, 71.590, P = 0.003, 0.000, 0.014 , 0.000, 0.000) and no significant difference was observed in the levels of norepinephrine, cortisol, blood glucose and noradrenaline after anesthesia induction and in the level of noradrenaline at the end of operation (t = 0.178, 1.076, 0.433, 1.739, P = 0.859, 0.287, 0.667, 0.087), but levels of epinephrine, norepinephrine, cortisol, and blood glucose in the control group were significantly higher than that in the experiment group at other time points (epinephrine: t = 4.715, 8.921, 7.685, 10.382, 9.887, all P = 0.000; norepinephrine: t = 2.423, 2.022, 2.483, all P = 0.018, 0.048, 0.016; Cortisol: t = 8.062, 5.559, 5.238, 5.228, all P = 0.000; blood glucose: t = 8.180, 5.656, 5.394, 9.174, all P = 0.000) and the results of comparison showed statistically significant difference. Conclusion For patients who will undergo escharectomy and skin grafting due to extensive burn, dexmedetomidine can reduce their stress response when they get general anesthesia, so it deserves further clinical research. |