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Burns
December 2024
Department of Anesthesiology, Shanghai General Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University, School of Medicine, Shanghai, China. Electronic address:
Aims: This study aimed to investigate whether the histone deacetylase HDAC4 inhibitor, trichostatin A (TSA), could reverse resistance to non-depolarizing muscle relaxants (NDMRs) caused by burn injuries.
Materials And Methods: A rat burn injury model was established, in which TSA was administered to inhibit HDAC4 expression. The potency of rocuronium was assessed through tension tests, and the levels of HDAC4 and myogenin proteins were determined using Western blot.
Eur J Anaesthesiol
January 2025
From the Division of Anaesthesiology, Department of Anaesthesiology, Pharmacology, Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine, University Hospitals of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland (ADSR, MB, RS, GA, ES), Department of Anaesthesia, Northern Lisbon University Hospital Centre, Lisbon, Portugal (ADSR), University Clinic of Anesthesiology and Reanimation, Faculty of Medicine, University of Lisbon, Portugal (ADSR), Division of Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology, Department of Anaesthesiology, Pharmacology and Intensive Care, University Hospitals of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland (AN).
Resistance to the effects of rocuronium and other neuromuscular blocking agents (NMBA) has been previously reported, including delayed onset of relaxation, rapid recovery and incomplete paralysis under recommended doses. These conditions have been associated with denervation injury, burns, immobilisation, infections, metabolic disorders, and drug interactions. In this report, we describe the case of a young male without any known pre-disposing factor for NMBA resistance, who failed to attain muscle relaxation with non-depolarising NMBA despite high doses of rocuronium and atracurium during two surgeries for colorectal cancer, several months apart.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEmerging evidence suggests that many conventional anticonvulsants, such as carbamazepine, phenytoin, and valproic acid, could cause cross-resistance to nondepolarizing muscle relaxants. However, there are few reports describing the interactions between levetiracetam and rocuronium. This case report describes the delayed onset of rocuronium in an adult patient with intractable epilepsy on long-term levetiracetam therapy.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMed Sci Monit
July 2024
Department Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Faculty of Medicine, Collegium Medicum University of Warmia and Mazury, Olsztyn, Poland.
Muscle relaxants have broad application in anesthesiology. They can be used for safe intubation, preparing the patient for surgery, or improving mechanical ventilation. Muscle relaxants can be classified based on their mechanism of action into depolarizing and non-depolarizing muscle relaxants and centrally acting muscle relaxants.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFClin Pract Cases Emerg Med
August 2023
Medical University of South Carolina, Department of Neurosurgery, Charleston, South Carolina.
Introduction: The use of paralytics during rapid sequence intubation (RSI) in patients with myasthenia gravis (MG) remains a controversial topic in emergency medicine. Due to fewer functional acetylcholine receptors, these patients can be both sensitive and resistant to different types of neuromuscular blocking agents (NMBA). Their atypical sensitivity to non-depolarizing NMBAs such as rocuronium can increase both the duration and depth of paralysis after its use at typical RSI doses.
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