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PCV108 CARDIOVERSION TREATMENT PATTERNS AND OUTCOMES AMONG ACUTE ATRIAL FIBRILLATION PATIENTS IN 5 EUROPEAN COUNTRIES
PCV66 Variations of Health Care Consumption in Management of Atrial Fibrillation Patients in the Acute Care Setting: The RHYTHM AF Study
Healthcare resource use among Patients with congestive Heart failure in a Large Health Organization
A Comparison Of State Transition And Discrete Event Modeling Approaches For Antiplatelet Use In The Secondary Prevention Of Thrombotic Events After Myocardial Infarction (MI)
The Use of Muscle Relaxants and Reversal Agents in a Setting Without Cost Restrictions: Experience from a Tertiary Academic Hospital in the Netherlands
Introduction: Muscle relaxants are often given during general anesthesia to facilitate endotracheal intubation. However lingering effects after anesthesia-end may lead to respiratory compromise in the PACU. Strategies to reduce these adverse events include monitoring neuromuscular block, the use of short-acting agents and active pharmacological reversal before extubation. At Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), a tertiary care academic hospital in the Netherlands, various muscle relaxants and reversal agents are freely available to all clinicians without restrictions. In this setting, we intended to evaluate how patient and surgical characteristics impacted the use of these agents for a variety of non-cardiac surgeries.Material and Methods: This is a retrospective database study of adult patients that had received elective, non-cardiac surgery and general anesthesia with endotracheal intubation between 2016 and 2020 at LUMC in the Netherlands. Exclusion criteria consisted of patients pharmacologically reversed with both sugammadex and neostigmine during the same procedure, diagnosed with myasthenia gravis, receiving pyridostigmine therapy, or with renal failure (eGFR <30 mL.min.1.73m(2)).Results: We retrieved 23,373 patient records of which 9742 were excluded because one or more exclusion criteria were met. The final cohort consisted of 13,631 cases. Rocuronium was the most commonly used muscle relaxant (88.5%); sugammadex was the most commonly used reversal agent (99.9% of those pharmacologically reversed). Of all cases that received rocuronium as muscle relaxant, 76.9% of patients were not reversed, while 23.1% were reversed with sugammadex. The odds of reversal increased with age, HMI, ASA class (1-3) and shorter duration of surgery.Conclusion: In an unrestricted clinical environment, rocuronium and sugammadex are the preferred agents for muscle relaxation and reversal. Pharmacologic reversal of neuromuscular block was uncommon overall, but more likely in older and obese patients, higher ASA classification and shorter lasting procedures. Sugammadex has largely replaced neostigmine for this purpose
Use of guideline-recommended management in established coronary heart disease in the observational DYSIS II study
10.1016/j.ijcard.2018.06.008International Journal of Cardiology27021-2