Background: During anaesthesia, maintenance of adequate tissue perfusion is mandatory. Intraoperative hypotension (IOH) is a common and frequent side effect of anaesthesia. Hence; the present study was undertaken for assessing the prevalence of hypotension among hypertensive patients after induction of general anesthesia. Materials & methods: Sample size for the present study included 200 hypertensive patients who underwent surgical procedures under general anesthesia. Complete demographic and clinical details of all the subjects were obtained from the record files. Complete analysis of the medical charts was done of all the patients from the anesthesia record files. The time period in each patient was divided into two parts; Interval T1: Time period starting from entering the room and extending till the point of tracheal intubation, Interval T2: Time period starting from point of intubation till the start of the surgical procedure. Assessment of prevalence of hypotension was done in separate Microsoft excel sheets.  Results: Overall prevalence of hypotension at T1 was found to be 72.5 percent. Overall prevalence of hypotension at T2 was found to be 95 percent. Significant results were obtained while assessing the age wise distribution of patients with presence of hypotension after administration of general anesthesia. Conclusion: Hypertensive patients are often affected with hypotension during general anesthesia; with age being a significant risk factor for the same.
Key words: Hypotension, Hypertension, Prevalence

Received: 12 June, 2018                                     Revised: 18 June, 2018                             Accepted: 25 June, 2018

Corresponding author: Dr. Savleen kaur Gill MBBS, Private Consultant, Ludhiana (Punjab), India

This article may be cited as: Gill SK. Assessment of prevalence of hypotension among hypertensive patients after induction of general anaesthesia: An observational study. Int J Res Health Allied Sci 2018; 4(4): 123- 125.