A surgical procedure performed on a patient admitted and discharged on the same day of surgery is an accepted practice to make hospital resources available for a greater number of patients as each patient gets discharged earlier from the hospital Rapid induction and recovery may lead to faster operating room turnover shorter recovery room stay and earlier discharge to home

Propofol has low lipid solubility and it gets eliminated rapidly from circulation Propofol is proven intravenous anaesthetic agent for day care procedures due to rapid onset of action with early recovery less incidence of post operative nausea and vomiting

 

Sevoflurane is non inflammable highly fluorinated anaesthetic agent with pleasant smell  It is potent hypnotic and fairly non irritant to the upper airway Sevoflurane has low blood gas co- efficient and produces characteristics of fast induction and rapid emergence from anaesthesia Inhalational induction using sevoflurane is rapid smooth and well tolerated in both children and adults

Propofol based anaesthesia is associated with hypotension, bradycardia pain on injection and may have allergic reaction Sevoflurane based anaesthesia provides relatively stable hemodynamics  Many studies have been done for phase I recovery but not much work done on phase II recovery with respect to ready for discharge home criteria So we conducted this study to compare recovery profile in both groups Our primary goal was to assess and compare phase I - early recovery time to achieve Aldrete score more than 9 in recovery room as well as phase 2  discharge to home recovery time to achieve PADSS score more than 9 in both the groups

Our secondary goal was to assess and compare induction quality in terms of LMA insertion conditions in both the groups