Post-Operative Blood Glucose Level among Non-Diabetes Patients Receiving General and Spinal Anesthesia

Introduction: Surgery is associated with increased stress response which results in sympathetic activations and the release of pituitary hormones that accelerate glycogenolysis and gluconeogenesis and result in stress hyperglycaemia. Recovery from anesthesia, and post-operative pain can increase the stress induced hormonal changes. Objective: To find out the pattern of postoperative blood glucose response among non-diabetes patients receiving either general anesthesia or spinal anesthesia for their surgeries. Methods: A Hospital based, Observational; Cross Sectional study was conducted at Department of Anaesthesiology, Gonoshasthaya Samaj Vittik Medical College, Savar, Dhaka, Bangladesh from January to December 2022. A total of 100 study subjects participated in the study was conducted among100 non diabetes patients who received either general or spinal anesthesia for their surgery. Data was analyzed using SPSS, version 20.0 for windows. Chi-Square test was used to show association between categorical variables and independent sample t-test was used to show mean difference among normally distributed continuous variables. All statistical tests were 2-tailed and a p-value of