Primera experiencia cubana del empleo de los modelos pedfusor y dómino para tiva-tci en pediatría

introduction: the intravenous total anesthesia has still not much used in pediatric patient and much less in its computer-guided infusion way. objectives: to characterize the use of the pedfusor and dòmino models for tiva-tci in pediatrics. material and methods: a prospective, longitudinal and descriptive study was conducted in 5 pediatric patients programmed for orthopedic surgery in the "cira garcía reyes" central clinic over aaugust-september, 2009. the study variables were the average plasma concentrations of propofol depending of the brain state rate, hemodynamic stability, anesthetic act length, time to wake up and presence of complications. data were directly collected from the anestfusor program and processed using the basic statistics of microsoft excel 2007. the information was showed in tables and charts drawn up in word and results were analyzed in a percentage way from the above mentioned variables. results: the mean plasma concentrations of propofol used for plasma and for effect site fluctuated from 2.9 ± 1.87 μ.ml-1 and 4.70 ± 0.93 u.ml-1 and 4.65 ± 0.92 u.ml-1, respectively, the hemodynamic stability was good in the 100% of cases; the anesthetic act had an intermediate and long length of 80% and 20% in the children, respectively, the mean time to wake up was of 6,32 ± 2,05 min and fluctuated from 3,5 to 8,8 min after infusion stopping. there were not complications. conclusions: the use of pedfusor and dòmino models for tiva-tci in pediatrics was clinically useful and safe.