Memory of intraoperative events
| Autor: | Ian F Russell, Michael Wang |
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| Rok vydání: | 1995 |
| Předmět: |
Nerve stimulation
medicine.medical_specialty business.industry General Engineering Ischemia General Medicine medicine.disease Neuromuscular monitoring Surgery Muscle relaxation medicine.anatomical_structure Forearm Anesthesia Cuff medicine General Earth and Planetary Sciences Intraoperative Period business General Environmental Science |
| Zdroj: | BMJ. 310:601-601 |
| ISSN: | 1468-5833 0959-8138 |
| Popis: | EDITOR,—We were disappointed to read in J G Jones's editorial on memory of intraoperative events that Jones believes that the isolated forearm technique is “unsuitable for prolonged monitoring because of the risk of ischaemia in the isolated arm.”1 We have described how prolonged monitoring is easily achieved simply by releasing the forearm cuff after 20 minutes and then reinflating it some minutes later if further muscle relaxation is required.2 3 This cycle of isolation of the forearm and release can then be maintained indefinitely. Using “train of four” nerve stimulation in more than 100 cases, we … |
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