%0 Journal Article
%T An Unusual Cause of Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve Monitoring Failure during Parathyroidectomy
%A KATARINA BOJANI£¿
%A AMANDA R. MORASKA
%A JURAJ SPRUNG
%A GEOFFREY B. THOMPSON
%J Signa Vitae
%D 2011
%I Pharmamed Mado
%X Intraoperative monitoring of the recurrent laryngeal nerve (RLN) during surgical dissection allows for real time identification and assessment of nerve function integrity. Since neuromuscular blockade interferes with electromyography, long-acting muscle relaxants cannot be used during anesthesia. We report a patient in whom monitoring of the RLN was unsuccessful because of prolonged muscle paralysis following the administration of succinylcholine, presumably due to a pseudocholinesterase deficiency.
%K laryngeal nerve monitoring
%K muscle paralysis
%K pseudocholinesterase deficiency
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