Drugs used to immobilize patients during surgery raise risk of respiratory complications, study finds
Wednesday, October 17, 2012 - 07:01
in Health & Medicine
Researchers have found that medications currently used to immobilize patients during surgery can increase the risk of postoperative respiratory complications. Their study also found that the agent most commonly used to reverse the action of the immobilizing drug does not prevent and may possibly increase the risk that patients will need to receive postoperative respiratory support.