A rare case of steering wheel injury causing coronal-plane pancreatic lacerations.

The incidence of pancreatic injury after blunt abdominal trauma is extremely low. A timely and accurate diagnosis is important, as a delay could be life-threatening. In this case, a 70-year-old driver crashed a car into a concrete wall at low speed.

Sensitivity to rocuronium-induced neuromuscular block and reversibility with sugammadex in a patient with myotonic dystrophy.

We report a patient with myotonic dystrophy who showed prolonged rocuronium-induced neuromuscular blockade, although with a fast recovery with sugammadex. During general anesthesia with propofol and remifentanil, the times to spontaneous recovery of the first twitch (T1) of train of four to 10% of control values after an intubating dose of rocuronium 1 mg/kg and an additional dose of 0.2 mg/kg were 112 min and 62 min, respectively.

The effects of age on maintenance of intense neuromuscular block with rocuronium.

Background: Increasing age is associated with a longer duration of action of neuromuscular block. The aim of this study was to determine the influence of ageing on the recovery of the post-tetanic count (PTC) from rocuronium-induced neuromuscular block.

Methods: Twenty-two younger (20-60 years) and 22 older (> 70 years) patients were enrolled in this study.

Correlation between cardiac output and reversibility of rocuronium-induced moderate neuromuscular block with sugammadex.

Background: The aim of this study was to evaluate the correlation between cardiac output (CO) and reversibility of rocuronium-induced moderate neuromuscular block with sugammadex in elderly patients.

Methods: Fifty elderly (≥ 65 years) patients were enrolled in this study. During 1.