Introduction:

Total intravenous anesthesia is a general anesthesia technique in which drugs are administered exclusively intravenously, in the absence of inhalation agents.

Objective:

To describe the outcomes observed in the use of total intravenous anesthesia in patients diagnosed with occlusive syndrome for surgical treatment.

Methods:

A descriptive, longitudinal and observational research was carried out in Abel Santamaría Cuadrado General Teaching Hospital of Pinar del Río, Cuba, from January 2014 to January 2017. From a universe of 417 patients, a sample of 205 cases that met the inclusion and exclusion criteria was selected. The variables were mean arterial pressure, heart rate, oxygen saturation, complications, recovery time, level of sedation, and analgesic response.

Results:

95.61 % of the cases remained normotensive and 96.10 % kept a normal heart rate. Clinical signs of sedation were found in 1.46 % of the individuals. Most of the cases recovered between 10 and 20 minutes, accounting for 92.19 %. Insufficient sedation was observed in 189 patients (92.19 %). No postoperative complications were observed in 96.58 %. Analgesic response was adequate in 95.12 % of cases.

Conclusions:

The application of total intravenous anesthesia for intestinal occlusion surgery showed satisfactory outcomes as an anesthetic method.

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