Abstract
Objective: The aim of our study was to assess the management of hypotension after general anaesthesia induction (GAIH). Design: Multicenter questionnaire study.
Setting: Eight different size anaesthesiology departments located in the Czech or Slovak Republics. Materials and methods: The respondents responded to three identification questions (workplace, length of practince) and ten GAIH management questions in our online questionnaire.
Simple descriptive statistics describing the representation of the respondents' answers in absolute and relative terms were used. Normalized entropy (H) was used to assess the variability of responses.
Results: A fully completed questionnaire was obtained from 172 respondents. The highest rate of variability was observed in question 1.: "As the baseline blood pressure value (BP), to which I compare other BP values, I consider..." H = 0.966.
The lowest response variability rate was observed in question 4.: "As hypotension, I consider the Of BP..." H = 0.07). Conclusion: Our results indicate high variability of GAIH management among anaesthetists.