Anesthesiologists routinely paralyze patients under general anesthesia. In this video, I explain why that's necessary, how the level of paralysis is monitored, and how the paralyzing medications are reversed.
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0:00 Start
0:55 Reasons for paralysis
2:50 Long acting paralytics
3:22 Paralysis monitoring
7:44 Reversal
Music:
Subtle Swagger by Ron Gelinas: / atmosphericmusicportal
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