Profile of sugammadex for reversal of neuromuscular blockade in the elderly: Current perspectives [PDF]
The number of elderly patients is increasing worldwide. This will have a significant impact on the practice of anesthesia in future decades. Anesthesiologists must provide care for an increasing number of elderly patients, who have an elevated risk of ...
Bertoncello, Francesco+2 more
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Intermediate acting non-depolarizing neuromuscular blocking agents and risk of postoperative respiratory complications: prospective propensity score matched cohort study [PDF]
Objective: To determine whether use of intermediate acting neuromuscular blocking agents during general anesthesia increases the incidence of postoperative respiratory complications. Design: Prospective, propensity score matched cohort study.
Bateman, Brian Thomas+9 more
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A fresh look at paralytics in the critically ill: real promise and real concern. [PDF]
Neuromuscular blocking agents (NMBAs), or "paralytics," often are deployed in the sickest patients in the intensive care unit (ICU) when usual care fails.
Kenyon, Nicholas J+2 more
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Sugammadex for reversal of neuromuscular blockade: A retrospective analysis of clinical outcomes and cost-effectiveness in a single center [PDF]
OBJECTIVE: The aim of the study is to evaluate the clinical and economic impact of introducing a rocuronium-neostigmine-sugammadex strategy into a cisatracurium-neostigmine regimen for neuromuscular block (NMB) management.
BARATTO, FABIO+3 more
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Tracheal intubation without neuromuscular blocking drugs in children [PDF]
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Inclusion body myositis: therapeutic approaches. [PDF]
The idiopathic inflammatory myopathies are a heterogeneous group of diseases that include dermatomyositis (DM), polymyositis (PM), inclusion body myositis (IBM) and other less common myopathies.
Aggarwal, Rohit, Oddis, Chester V
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Medication Complications in Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation. [PDF]
The need for extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) therapy is a marker of disease severity for which multiple medications are required. The therapy causes physiologic changes that impact drug pharmacokinetics.
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Neurotoxicity refers to the direct or indirect effect of chemicals that disrupt the nervous system of humans or animals. Numerous chemicals can produce neurotoxic diseases in humans, and many more are used as experimental tools to disturb or damage the ...
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Anesthesia in the surgery of strabismus: role of anesthetic agents in the ocular deviation and surgical outcome [PDF]
Purpose: To determine whether the changes in the ocular alignment following general anesthesia, maintained with two different inhalational anesthetic agents, sevoflurane and desflurane, can be used as a predictor for surgical outcomes in children with ...
Arrico, Loredana+5 more
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The binding of botulinum neurotoxins to different peripheral neurons [PDF]
Botulinum neurotoxins are the most potent toxins known. The double receptor binding modality represents one of the most significant properties of botulinum neurotoxins and largely accounts for their incredible potency and lethality.
Rossetto, O.
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