Mask Ventilation Before and After Neuromuscular Blockade
Status:
Completed
Trial end date:
2015-02-01
Target enrollment:
Participant gender:
Summary
Anesthesia providers are taught to "test" that they can properly ventilate a patient's lungs
before administering a neuromuscular blocking drug (NMBD), rendering the patient apneic. This
is a traditional teaching, not based on empirical evidence. The investigators primary
hypothesis is that ventilation after the administration of NMBDs is non-inferior with that
before their administration with respect to the composite safety endpoint of inadequate (MVi)
and dead-space only (Vds) ventilation.