- Shivering is one of the post-anesthetic complications.
- How to prevent chills are not always effective.
- Meperidine is the analgesic drug that can be used to prevent post-anesthetic shivering, but these drugs have a constraint between others are not always effective, causing nausea and vomiting, sedation, euphoria and the incidence of pruritus and respiratory depression which is quite high.
- Tramadol is an analgesic drug that can be used to prevent post-anesthesia shivering, cause less respiratory depression and sedation compared with meperidine.
- From the statement above, can be prepared a formulation of the problem is provision of tramadol 2 mg / kg intravenously before the end of the operation is more effective than meperidine 0.5 mg / kg intravenously before the end of the operation to prevent incidence of post-anesthetic shivering.
