TY - JOUR
T1 - Emergency use of sugammadex after failure of standard reversal drugs
AU - Lenz, Adam
AU - Hill, Gary
AU - White, Paul F.
PY - 2007/3
Y1 - 2007/3
N2 - Administration of sugammadex, 350 mg IV (4 mg/kg), in the postanesthesia care unit immediately (<60 s) relieved acute respiratory distress due to residual neuromuscular blockade in a 42-yr-old patient with chronic renal failure who had received vecuronium, 10 mg IV, for tracheal intubation, after inadequate reversal of neuromuscular blockade in the operating room with neostigmine, 5 mg IV, and glycopyrrolate, 1 mg IV.
AB - Administration of sugammadex, 350 mg IV (4 mg/kg), in the postanesthesia care unit immediately (<60 s) relieved acute respiratory distress due to residual neuromuscular blockade in a 42-yr-old patient with chronic renal failure who had received vecuronium, 10 mg IV, for tracheal intubation, after inadequate reversal of neuromuscular blockade in the operating room with neostigmine, 5 mg IV, and glycopyrrolate, 1 mg IV.
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U2 - 10.1213/01.ane.0000253231.76654.45
DO - 10.1213/01.ane.0000253231.76654.45
M3 - Article
C2 - 17312213
AN - SCOPUS:33847229811
SN - 0003-2999
VL - 104
SP - 585
EP - 586
JO - Anesthesia and analgesia
JF - Anesthesia and analgesia
IS - 3
ER -