Effect of Ketamine Versus Sevoflurane On The Right Ventricular Pressure During Congenital Pulmonary Stenosis Balloon Dilatation

Critical pulmonary stenosis (PS) is a life-threatening congenital heart disease which manifest during the neonatal period with cyanosis. Surgical valvotomy was the procedure of choice for critical PS; however, balloon pulmonary valvoplasty (BPV) has now become the standard management.

Ketamine is often used for procedural sedation or as adjunct agent for general anesthesia in pediatrics with congenital heart disease. Ketamine is a chemical derivative of phencyclidine acting as a selective antagonist of the N-methyl-d-aspartate (NMDA) receptor, an ionotropic glutamate receptor that participates in analgesia, amnesia, and sedation pathways.

Ketamine has minimal impact on hemodynamics in children with congenital heart disease when used at usual clinical doses. Systemic vascular resistance and pulmonary vascular resistance are not significantly altered.

Sevoflurane is a sweet-smelling, highly fluorinated methyl isopropyl ether used as an inhalational anesthetic for induction and maintenance of general anesthesia. It proved to be safe as induction agent in noncardiac surgery and cardiac surgery. Sevoflurane has low solubility in blood, produces less arrhythmias and decrease in contractility less than halothane without changing pulmonary to systemic blood flow ratio in pediatrics with congenital heart disease.