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Role of amino acid infusion in delayed recovery from neuromuscular blockers.

Anju Gupta1, Nishkarsh Gupta.   

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Year:  2011        PMID: 21712894      PMCID: PMC3106411          DOI: 10.4103/0019-5049.79887

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  Indian J Anaesth        ISSN: 0019-5049


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Sir, I appreciate the successful management of a patient with recurarisation[1] due to suspected hypothermia. But we have some concerns regarding the author’s findings and the related interpretation. Firstly, hypothermia under anaesthesia classically occurs in three phases; namely, early redistribution phase, intermediate linear phase and a plateau phase.[23] On induction of anaesthesia, there is a transfer of heat from core to periphery accounting for 0.5–1°C fall in core temperature during the first hour.[23] Since surgery lasted 60 minutes (in the reported case only); the reported fall of temperature of 2°C (to 35°C) is a bit too much for a surgery that lasted only 60 minutes. Moreover, ambient temperature[4] of the operating room is the single most important factor determining degree of redistribution hypothermia but there is no mention of it anywhere in the article.[4] Secondly, patient was given vecuronium bromide at a dose of 0.1 mg/kg (4.5 mg initial dose) and the total dosage was 4.8 mg. considering this, the rationale and timing of 0.3 mg repeat dose of vecuronium is not clear. Also, there is no mention of time elapsed after the last dose of vecuronium bromide and before attempting reversal. Moreover, since a 3°C fall in core temperature doubles the duration of vecuronium bromide,[5] if hypothermia of a degree mentioned was present, than this would have increased the duration of vecuronium bromide. This becomes important because in the presence of hypothermia reversal of neuromuscular block may be difficult. Thirdly, once patient was found to have inadequate neuromuscular reversal, no effort was made to assess neuromuscular junction function via clinical tests and neuromuscular monitoring. Instead, temperature monitoring was thought of in the first place (that too core temperature via nasopharyngeal probe in an awake patient!). Fourthly, although amino acids are known to increase internal heat generation, their effect is more evident inter-operatively because anaesthesia induced inhibition of central thermosensors.[6] Their effect is not expected to be the same postoperatively. It is unlikely that hypothermia was corrected by 150 ml of amino acids. Moreover, the basis of giving amino acids at the rate of 100 ml/hour is also not clarified. So, findings of this case report should be interpreted with caution and we should be careful in using amino acids blindly during the postoperative period for correction of hypothermia.
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1.  Age-related thermoregulatory differences in a warm operating room environment (approximately 26 degrees C).

Authors:  N El-Gamal; N Elkassabany; S M Frank; R Amar; H A Khabar; H K El-Rahmany; A S Okasha
Journal:  Anesth Analg       Date:  2000-03       Impact factor: 5.108

Review 2.  Mild perioperative hypothermia.

Authors:  D I Sessler
Journal:  N Engl J Med       Date:  1997-06-12       Impact factor: 91.245

3.  Mild intraoperative hypothermia increases duration of action and spontaneous recovery of vecuronium blockade during nitrous oxide-isoflurane anesthesia in humans.

Authors:  T Heier; J E Caldwell; D I Sessler; R D Miller
Journal:  Anesthesiology       Date:  1991-05       Impact factor: 7.892

4.  Augmented thermic effect of amino acids under general anaesthesia: a mechanism useful for prevention of anaesthesia-induced hypothermia.

Authors:  E Selldén; T Brundin; J Wahren
Journal:  Clin Sci (Lond)       Date:  1994-05       Impact factor: 6.124

5.  A prospective randomized double blind study to evaluate the effect of infusion of amino Acid enriched solution on recovery from neuromuscular blockade.

Authors:  Nishkarsh Gupta; Raminder Sehgal; Rakesh Kumar; Kavita Rani Sharma; Anju Gupta; Nidhi Agrawal
Journal:  Indian J Anaesth       Date:  2009-06

6.  Role of amino acid infusion in delayed recovery from neuromuscular blockers.

Authors:  Seema Kalra; Rachna Wadhwa
Journal:  Indian J Anaesth       Date:  2010-03
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