Delirium in critically ill patients is associated with increased mortality, longer stays and post-discharge cognitive effects.
Local anaesthetic wound infiltration for breast surgery has only modest effects on early post-surgical pain.
Postoperative residual neuromuscular blockade continues to be common and is experienced by the majority of patients receiving muscle relaxants.
In patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, use of regional anesthesia is associated with less post-operative morbidity, though not mortality, when compared with general anesthesia.
Negative post-anesthetic cognitive effects are still present one week after both desflurane or propofol anesthesia.
Unrestricted access to sugammadex both increases the use of sugammadex and changes patterns of muscle relaxant drug choice by anaesthetists.
Sugammadex is superior to neostigmine for reversal of rocuronium neuromuscular blockade.
Reversal with sugammadex is 10 times faster than with neostigmine and three times faster than with edrophonium.
Adequate reversal of neuromuscular blockade may not always be helpful when successfully managing a cannot intubate-cannot-ventilate crisis.
Reversal with sugammadex produces better recovery of diaphragm function than neostigmine reversal.
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