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December 2019
Department of Medicine, Saint Joseph Hospital, Lexington, Ky.
The use of Botulinum toxin type A (Botox) for cosmetic procedures has become so prevalent that many patients do not always consider it to be a past surgical procedure, and it goes excluded from the medical record. Without the knowledge of prior Botox use, interpretation of facial nerve train-of-four testing may be inaccurate. We describe a 61-year-old woman with a history of multiple cosmetic procedures whose postoperative course was complicated by multiorgan system failure, requiring neuromuscular blockade while on mechanical ventilatory support.
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