Postoperative residual neuromuscular blockade
Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Chungnam National University School of Medicine, Daejeon, Korea
Correspondence to: Yong Sup Shin
Received December 11, 2014; Revised December 15, 2014; Accepted December 18, 2014.
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.- Abstract
Postoperative residual neuromuscular blockade or residual paralysis in the postanesthesia care unit is associated with postoperative complications such as muscle weakness, difficulty in breathing, airway obstruction, and hypoxemia. Residual paralysis can be defined by inadequate neuromuscular recovery as measured by objective neuromuscular monitoring. The train-of-four ratio threshold less than or equal to 0.9 is considered to indicate inadequate neuromuscular recovery. Careful management of residual paralysis may decrease the occurrence of adverse events associated with residual neuromuscular blockade. In this review, the clinical implications of residual neuromuscular blockade are summarized. (Anesth Pain Med 2015; 10: 1-5)
- Key Words : Muscle relaxants-nondepolarizing, Neuromuscular block-adverse effects.
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