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Prolonged curarisation following renal transplantation
Author(s) -
ROUSE JANE M.,
GALLEY R. L. A.,
BEVAN D. R.
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
anaesthesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.839
H-Index - 117
eISSN - 1365-2044
pISSN - 0003-2409
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2044.1977.tb11602.x
Subject(s) - medicine , respiratory system , transplantation , respiratory failure , anesthesia , retrospective cohort study , mechanical ventilation , ventilation (architecture) , assisted ventilation , surgery , mechanical engineering , engineering
Summary A retrospective study of postoperative respiratory morbidity in 247 patients requiring renal transplantation between 1955 and 1973 showed that 7 patients required postoperative controlled ventilation for up to 6 days. The non‐depolarising relaxants tubocurarine and pancuronium were used in only 65 patients, but all 7 cases of respiratory failure occurred in this group. This suggests that the use of these drugs in anephric patients is potentially hazardous so far as postoperative respiratory insufficiency is concerned.