Efficacy of prophylactic low dose ketamine and tramadol for prevention of shivering during spinal anaesthesia in patients undergoing lower abdominal surgeries

Aim: to compare the efficacy of prophylactic low dose ketamine and tramadol in terms of prevention of shivering during spinal anaesthesia in subjects undergoing lower abdominal surgeries. settings: department of anaesthesia & intensive care,cmh,lahore duration of study: from: january 2015 to june 2015. study design: randomized controlled trials results: in this study,mean±sd was calculated as 28.13±6.19 in group-k and 28.41±5.97 years in group-t while comparison of efficacy in both groups was recorded which shows that 6(18.75%) in group-k and 15(46.88%) in group-t while remaining 26(81.5%) in group-k and 17(53.12%) in group-t were not recorded with efficacy,p value=0.01,showing a significant difference. conclusion: we concluded that on comparison of efficacy of prophylactic low dose ketamine with tramadol for prevention of shivering during spinal anaesthesia in cases undergoing lower abdominal surgeries,ketamine is found to be significantly more effective than tramadol.