Open AccessThe Incidence of hypotension with continuous infusion atracurium compared to cisatracurium in the Intensive Care Unit
Author(s) -
Luke A. Vander Weide,
Mahmoud Abdel-Rasoul,
Anthony T. Gerlach
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
international journal of critical illness and injury science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.274
H-Index - 12
eISSN - 2231-5004
pISSN - 2229-5151
DOI - 10.4103/ijciis.ijciis_35_16
Subject(s) - medicine , intensive care unit , anesthesia , incidence (geometry) , intensive care medicine , optics , physics
A drug shortage of cisatracurium led to use of atracurium as an alternative neuromuscular blocker (NMB). Cisatracurium may be preferred due to less histamine release and potentially less hypotension. The study purpose is to compare the incidence of hypotension with continuous infusion atracurium to continuous infusion cisatracurium in ICU patients.