Abstract
(Abstracted from Anesthesiology, 125:647–655, 2016) The aim of the study was to investigate 2 questions: first, whether there is an association between the use of nondepolarizing neuromuscular-blocking agents (NMBAs) during surgery and the development of postoperative pneumonia (POP); second, whether there is an increased incidence of POP in patients who did not receive reversal of their nondepolarizing NMBAs. The authors studies 13,100 pertinent surgeries at Vanderbilt University Medical Center between July 8, 2005, and September 30, 2013, and compared postoperative patients who received nondepolarizing NMBAs such as cisatracurium, rocuronium, or vecuronium (n = 1455) with patients who did not receive these agents (n = 1455).
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