General Anaesthesia with Muscle Paralysis in Patients with Anterior Mediastinal Mass – an audit of 15 cases and review of literature

Abstract

General Anaesthesia (GA) with PPV can lead to cardiorespiratory collapse in patients with AMM. However, adequate relaxation facilitates major surgery and it is important to be able to predict when it is safe to use muscle paralysis. The medical notes of patients who had undergone resection of AMM were studied to look for complications developed due to PPV. The clinical features, lung functions, echocardiography and computed tomography (CT) findings were recorded to see if any of them could predict adverse events.