Background/aim: Local anesthesia is the one of the most used procedures in surgical practice. It is used for toot extraction to produce analgesic and anesthetic effects. However, there is a question if it is equally safe to apply a local anesthetic combined with a vasoconstrictor (adrenaline) in healthy persons, and in the patients with a certain cardiovasccular system disease. The aim of this stady was to determine whether there were differences in cardiovascular variables during tooth extraction in healthy persons, and in cardiovascular patients when an anesthetic was applyted with adrenaline, or without it.
Methods: The examinees were divided into the group with cardiovascular diseases (CV, n=57) of H and III type, according to the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) qualification, and healthy persons (H, n=55). Both groups were randomly divided into two subgroups: CVa and Ha--where the anesthetic solution had the vasoconstrictor (3% lidocaine, and 1: 100,000 adrenaline); CVb and Hb--where the anesthetic solution was without the vasoconstrictor (3% lidocaine). During the preparation for tooth extraction, the application of anesthetics, extraction and relaxation puls (fc), systolic (TAs) and diastolic arterial blood pressure (TAd) and ECG were registered.
Results: The values of fc did not significantly differ among the groups in any measured term. The values of systolic and diastolic blood pressure in the groups CVa and CVb were significantly higher in all the terms of measuring (p < 0.05) from the values in the groups Ha and Hb. A significant increase of TAs was registered only in the phase of tooth extraction in the CVa and CVb group (< 0.05). The values of TAd did not significantly differ between the groups in all the measured terms. Extrasystolic beats were registered in 11 patients of the CV group and in 7 patients of the H group in the phase of anesthetic application or tooth extraction.
Conclusion: This research shoved that tooth extraction under local anesthesia did not cause complications in cardiovascular patients who were in II or III ASA qualification group, regardless the presence of a vasoconstrictor in the local anesthetic solution.