Table 1. Demographic and Clinical Data

Age, weight, anesthetic, surgical and recovery times, requirements of intravenous fluids and intraoperative meperidine were presented as the mean ± SD. ASA physical status, sex ratio, number of muscles operated on and requirements of postoperative analgesics were presented as the number of children. The demographic and clinical data were comparable in all the groups.

* n = 30 in each group.

ASA = American Society of Anesthesiologists.