Open AccessTobramycin-Curare Interaction
Author(s) -
Waterman Pm,
Smith Rb
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
anesthesia and analgesia/anesthesia and analgesia
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.404
H-Index - 201
eISSN - 1526-7598
pISSN - 0003-2999
DOI - 10.1213/00000539-197707000-00034
Subject(s) - curare , medicine , tobramycin , fentanyl , anesthesia , muscle relaxant , d tubocurarine , surgery , antibiotics , gentamicin , microbiology and biotechnology , biology
A 59-year-old patient had urologic surgery under d-tubocurarine-fentanyl-N2O anesthesia. The muscle relaxant was reversed with prostigmine at the end of the 5-hour procedure. Reparalysis occurred after the administration of IV tobramycin and was successfully reversed with prostigmine.