title: Comparison of a new piezoelectric train-of-four neuromuscular monitor, the ParaGraph, and the Relaxometer mechanomyograph.
abstract: The ParaGraph is a new device for monitoring neuromuscular function using a piezoelectric motion sensor. In 20 patients, monitoring of neuromuscular block produced by cisatracurium 0.1 mg kg-1 was compared using the ParaGraph and a Relaxometer 2 mechanomyograph. The ParaGraph was quick to set up, and easy to operate and interpret. There were no significant differences in the time to 100% depression of T1/T0, time to 25% recovery of T1/T0 or time to recovery of T1/T0 from 25% to 75%, measured by the two monitors. When the difference between the two monitors was plotted against the average of the two measurements, the limits of agreement for T1/T0 (-42.95, +53.98%) and the train-of-four ratio, T4/T1 (-0.28, +0.21) were too wide to allow the values given by the two monitors for individual patients to be used interchangeably.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, LKH, Karl Franzens University, Graz, Austria.
authors.forename: A A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Dahaba
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Von Klobucar
authors.forename: P H
authors.initials: PH
authors.lastname: Rehak
authors.forename: W F
authors.initials: WF
authors.lastname: List
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001279:Atracurium / Q000031:analogs & derivatives / Q000494:pharmacology; D004576:Electromyography; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D016343:Monitoring, Intraoperative / Q000295:instrumentation*; D019148:Neuromuscular Blockade; D009469:Neuromuscular Junction / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology*; D003473:Neuromuscular Nondepolarizing Agents / Q000494:pharmacology
chemical_list: D003473:Neuromuscular Nondepolarizing Agents; D001279:Atracurium; C101584:cisatracurium