[Blood plasma level of 17-hydroxycorticosteroids in peridural and combined anesthesia].
Studies of the effect of peridural anesthesia applied as an independent method or together with combined narcosis has proved that peridural anesthesia does not cause adrenocortical tension, maintains, the natural level of adrenocortical secretion, contributes to rapid normalization of corticosteroids level in the postoperative period. The increase of corticosteroids blood level in case of peridural anesthesia, applied together with combined narcosis, should be referred on account of direct effect of ether-oxygen narcosis.