Table 1.

Preoperative Data of Patients Receiving Desflurane Alone (Des) vs. Desflurane and Remifentanil (Des/Remi)

	Des	Des/Remi	p value
Total Number of Patients	11	11
Demographics
Year of surgery
2014–15	11	0
2016–18	0	11
Maternal age (years)	31.0 ± 5.4	30.7 ± 4.5	0.90
Maternal weight (kg)	78.8 ± 11.6	74.2 ± 9.6	0.32
Gestational age at surgery (weeks)	24.0 ± 1.3	24.3 ± 1.2	0.55
Preoperative maternal heart rate (beats/min)	84 ± 16	79 ± 13	0.42

MAC = minimum alveolar concentration (i.e., end-tidal desflurane percentage divided by 6.6%)

^*Categorical variables were compared with Fishers’ Exact Test due to small sample size

Continuous data are displayed as mean ±SD