The Impact of Residual Neuromuscular Blockade, Oversedation, and Hypothermia on Adverse Respiratory Events in a Postanesthetic Care Unit: A Prospective Study of Prevalence, Predictors, and Outcomes

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 123, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 859-868

  Stewart, Paul A ^a,b   Liang, Sophie S ^c,d   Li, Qiushuang Susan ^e   Huang, Min Li ^f   Bilgin, Ayse B ^g   Kim, Dukyeon ^a   Phillips, Stephanie ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b SYDNEY ADVENTIST HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d BLACKTOWN HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^e QUEEN ELIZABETH HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^f Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases   (Australia)

^g MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATRACURIUM BESILATE; CISATRACURIUM; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING AGENT; ROCURONIUM; SUXAMETHONIUM; VECURONIUM;

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ADULT; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONSCIOUSNESS LEVEL; CORE TEMPERATURE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPOTHERMIA; HYPOXEMIA; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING; OPERATION DURATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTANESTHESIA CARE; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PULMONARY ASPIRATION; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; SEDATION; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT OBSTRUCTION; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AGED; ANESTHETIC RECOVERY; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; DELAYED EMERGENCE FROM ANESTHESIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREDICTIVE VALUE; RESPIRATION DISORDERS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRENDS; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANESTHESIA RECOVERY PERIOD; COHORT STUDIES; DELAYED EMERGENCE FROM ANESTHESIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKADE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESPIRATION DISORDERS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84983081946     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: 15267598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0000000000001513     Document Type: Conference Paper

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