Changes in Blood fibrinolytic Activity During Anaesthesia

the fibrinolytic activity and some representativehaemostatic and coagulation mechanisms were ex-patients undergoing elective surgical opera-one. They were 26 mals and ’4 females, divided into~o~s each group include ten patients. The patientsthe first group were anaesthetised with nitrous oxideOxygen supplemented with O.5-’~ halothane, of thend group anaesthetised with ether, of the third groupethetieed with halothane and of the fourth anaesthe-with a local anaesthetic by the epidural route.samples were obtained from each patient,was taken one day before the operation,tae used as control. The second sample was takenbefore induction of anaesthesia and after premedi-• The third sample taken, thirty minutes afterion of anaesthesia, without surgical intervension.U1h sample taken at the end of surgery, the fifth,~d seventh samples were taken on the first, thirdth poetoperati ve days respectively.