Commonly Used Muscles Relaxant and Reversal Agents for Children Treated Under General Anaesthesia - A Retrospective Cohort Study

Abstract

Background: Pediatric patients going through dental systems and who are incredibly uncooperative, unfortunate, restless, or actually safe without any assumption for conduct improvement are gone through for general anaesthesia (GA) to do the treatment. Changes in the training and advancement of general sedative medications have impacted the utilization of muscle relaxants and inversion specialists in pediatric patients. Aims: The aim of the review was to survey the commonly used muscle relaxant and reversal agents for pediatric patients treated under general anesthesia in Saveetha dental college from March 2020 to February 2021. Setting and Design: A retrospective study was conducted on pediatric patients treated under general anesthesia to determine the commonly used muscle relaxants and reversal agents. Materials and Methods: From pediatric patients visiting private dental hospital, those who are treated under general anesthesia from March 2020 to February 2021 considered as inclusion . Exclusion criteria involve those who are not treated under general anesthesia. The final sample size 100. The age , gender, muscle relaxants and reversal agents prescribed were considered and tabulated and SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences, Chicago,USA) was used to analyze the data. The results were compared using descriptive statistics and Chi-square-test. Then 0.05 was set to be a P value for the level of significance. Results: From the results of the study, atracurium(99%) and vecuronium(1%) were the commonly used muscle relaxants and neostigmine + glycopyrrolate(100%) was the commonly used reversal agents for pediatric patients treated under general anesthesia. Conclusions: From the study , there were only a few standard drugs like atracurium and vecuronium used as muscle relaxant and neostigmine + glycopyrrolate reversal agents were used for pediatric patients who were treated under general anesthesia .