Impaired upper airway integrity by residual neuromuscular blockade: Increased airway collapsibility and blunted genioglossus muscle activity in response to negative pharyngeal pressure

Anesthesiology

Volumn 110, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1253-1260

  Herbstreit, Frank ^a   Peters, Jürgen ^b   Eikermann, Matthias ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ROCURONIUM; CARBON DIOXIDE; OXYGEN;

ADULT; AIRWAY DYNAMICS; ARTICLE; BREATHING RATE; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ELECTROMYOGRAM; EPIGLOTTIS; GENIOGLOSSUS MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUNG VOLUME; MALE; MINIMUM LUNG ALVEOLUS CONCENTRATION; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING; NORMAL HUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TIDAL VOLUME; UPPER AIRWAY CRITICAL CLOSING PRESSURE; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT OBSTRUCTION; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; BLOOD; BREATHING MECHANICS; BREATHING MUSCLE; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; DRUG EFFECT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHARYNX; PHYSIOLOGY; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ADULT; AIR PRESSURE; CARBON DIOXIDE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKADE; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; OXYGEN; PHARYNX; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS; RESPIRATORY MUSCLES; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TIDAL VOLUME;

EID: 67049146252     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: 15281175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ALN.0b013e31819faa71     Document Type: Article

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