Autonomic Modulation After Propofol Target Controlled Infusion and Bolus Administration

Some studies have compared the clinical profile during propofol induction anesthesia with Target-controlled infusion (TCI) and manually bolus showed similar control of anesthesia, such as depth of anaesthesia and hemodynamic stability, but did not use an objective measure of instantaneous autonomic activity during the brief time of induction anesthesia. In this study, TCI and manually bolus of propofol injection techniques during induction were studied with wavelet-based spectral analysis and the amplitudes of the pulse plethysmographic. The investigators hypothesized that during propofol induction anesthesia, the instantaneous ANS activities was more stable with TCI than traditional manually bolus