Anesthesia & Clinical Research
Open Access
ISSN: 2155-6148
ISSN: 2155-6148
Department of Anesthesia and critical care, College of health sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda
Research Article
Prevalence and Complications of Residual Neuromuscular Blockade in the Post Anesthesia Care Units of Uganda
Author(s): Andrew Emyedu*, Patience Atumanya, Erasmus Okello, Agnes Wabule, Lameck Ssemogerere, John Mukisa and Cornelius Sendagire
Background: Residual neuromuscular blockade is a major deterrent to use of neuromuscular blocking drugs during general anesthesia. It is associated with potentially fatal acute respiratory events like upper airway obstruction, aspiration, hypoxia and atelectasis. In this study, we set out to determine the prevalence and complications of residual neuromuscular blockade in our setting.
Methods: We conducted a multicenter prospective cohort study in three referral hospitals in Uganda from June 2019 to March 2020. We recruited 485 adult patients admitted to the PACU who had received a non-depolarizing neuromuscular blocking drug during surgery. Our primary outcome was the prevalence of residual neuromuscular blockade in the PACU, which was defined as having a train of four ratio <0.9 and the secondary outcomes were associated factors and comp.. View More»
DOI:
10.35248/2155-6148.22.13.1045