DOI: 10.36347/sjams.2019.v07i09.030

Pages: 3058-3061

Introduction: In caesarean section uses of anesthesia is a common practice. Sometimes general anesthesia is well enough for this purpose and in some cases spinal anesthesia becomes necessary in caesarean section for better compliance. Physicians have to have the clear ideas about the side effects of general as well as spinal anesthesia in treating the patients of caesarean section. Aim of the study: The aim of this study was to evaluate the side effects of spinal and general anesthesia during caesarean section. Methods: This comparative study was conducted in the Department of Anaesthesiology collaboratively with the Department of Gynecology & Obstetrics of Prime Medical College Hospital, Rangpur, Bangladesh during the period from January 2018 to December 2018. In total 60 randomly selected patients of caesarean section was the study population. The total study population was divided into two groups containing 30 participants in each. Blood samples of Group I and Group II patients were collected to analyze the differences in WBCs, RBCs, Hemoglobin concentration and platelets count. Result: In Group I (Spinal) the highest portion of patients suffered from Hypotension which was 53.33%. Then 50%, 43.33%, 36.67% and 46.67% suffered from pain, headache, vomiting and fever. On the other hand in Group II patients 33.33%, 30%, 23.33%, 20% and 6.67% suffered from Hypotension, pain, headache, vomiting and fever. So in our study we found all the ratios of side effects were higher in group I where spinal anesthesia was used. Conclusion: According to the findings of regarding side effects of spinals as well as general anesthesia in our study we found some superiority of general anesthesia over spinal anesthesia. During this study, we felled some necessity of a study regarding the efficacy of both the anesthetic agents to make a better choice between the agents.