Shivering control in women under spinal anesthesia: A reviewed study of the role of anesthetics

Abstract

Introduction: Prevention and control of maternal shivering during spinal anesthesia for cesarean section is very important in the appropriate outcomes of surgery, however, choosing the appropriate drug for this should be associated with few side effects for mother and baby. Therefore, this study was performed to evaluate the drugs used to control shivering in women under spinal anesthesia.Methods: The present study was a narrative review study. In this study, to find related studies, researchers conducted a computer search in the SID, Magiran and Google Scholar databases with Persian keywords including: spinal anesthesia, spinal anesthesia, shivering and cesarean section. In the initial stage of searching for studies, 364 studies were reviewed. The researchers then reviewed the searched articles and 341 studies were deleted because they were not related to the subject. Inclusion criteria for the present study included: Persian articles that dealt only with shivering in spinal anesthesia during cesarean section and also original research articles of clinical trial type. Exclusion criteria also included not having access to the full text of the article, abstracts of congressional papers, or conferences, and review or meta-analysis papers. Finally, 13 studies were used to write this study.Results: In reviewing the research background, different studies used different drugs to prevent shivering after cesarean section. Shivering after spinal anesthesia has been the specific goal of many studies with clinical trial design. Interventions in this regard included: intrathecal or intravenous injection of drugs such as magnesium sulfate, hydrocortisone, .