Article Notes
Article pearls, summaries and comments.
Make sure to read the editorial in the same issue from Schneider, Restrict relaxants, be aware, and know the limitations of your depth of anaesthesia monitor, and a related study from back in 2003 from Messner, The bispectral index declines during neuromuscular block in fully awake persons.
This is a most fascinating study, both academically, clinically and psychologically. The full Method deserves to be read, along with the participant's description of their experience in the Results.
...fasciculations attributable to suxamethonium were painful, and the ensuing paralysis was experienced as a feeling of profound heaviness, ‘as if someone had pulled the plug and drained the fluid out’.