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Filter by:The purpose of this study is to evaluate the clinical results of patients who received revascularization of the aorta and peripheral artery at Asan Medical Center.
Sugammadex is frequently used to reverse the effects of neuromuscular blocking drugs. The recommended doses are 2 mg/kg or 4 mg/kg depending upon the depth of neuromuscular blockade. Clinical studies and experience have suggested that smaller doses may be effective. The purpose of this observational study is to determine the minimal effective dose of sugammadex by administering 50 mg every 5 minutes until the train-of-four ratio is 0.9 in a cohort of cardiac surgery patients, and to determine the duration of action by measuring the train-of-four every hour for up to 6 hours following reversal.
During the last twenty years heart surgery has become safer and the number of patients having heart surgery has increased with more frail patients being offered increasingly complex surgery. Heart operations often improve survival and quality of life (QoL), but that is not true for all patients. Regarding survival, clinicians can measure the risk to life from having a heart operation and the risk to life from not quite precisely, but clinicians have little idea about the impact of heart operations on QoL, which is the outcome that patients care about most. Clinicians are unable to provide patients with robust information on how an operation will affect their QoL. This study will provide this information by analysing the data from patient questionnaires immediately before and after the procedure and monthly thereafter for 12 months.