title: [Use of sugammadex in burn patients: descriptive study].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The burn patient is a challenge for the anesthesiologist, undergoing several surgeries during admission, and requiring general anesthesia and muscle relaxation most of the times. They have respiratory system impairment and a response to muscle relaxants that differs from the healthy patient, thus proper monitoring and reversal is crucial. We analyzed sugammadex effectiveness and safety in this population.
  
  
  METHODS
  Prospectively descriptive study including four patients, all of them considered major burn patients, who underwent escharotomy with general anesthesia and neuromuscular relaxation. The main variable was the time for recovery of a TOF higher than 0.9 after the administration of sugammadex before extubation.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Mean time of recovery from a TOF ratio higher than 0.9 following the administration of Sugammadex was of 4.95minutes 95% CI (3.25-6.64, p=.53);
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The reversion of neuromuscular relaxation with sugammadex appears to be effective and safe in the burn patient. More analytical, comparative studies, of larger populations would be necessary to confirm this data.
authors.affiliation: Anestesiologia e Reanimação, Hospitais Universitários Virgen del Rocío, Sevilha, Espanha. Electronic address: edurodriguez87@yahoo.es.
authors.forename: Eduardo
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Rodríguez Sánchez M
authors.affiliation: Anestesiologia e Reanimação, Hospitais Universitários Virgen del Rocío, Sevilha, Espanha.
authors.forename: Concepción
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Martínez Torres
authors.affiliation: Anestesiologia e Reanimação, Hospitais Universitários Virgen del Rocío, Sevilha, Espanha.
authors.forename: Pablo
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Herrera Calo
authors.affiliation: Anestesiologia e Reanimação, Hospitais Universitários Virgen del Rocío, Sevilha, Espanha.
authors.forename: Ignacio
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Jiménez
keywords: Androstanóis; Bloqueio neuromuscular; Burn injury; Cyclodextrin; Gama‐ciclodextrinas; Neostigmina; Neostigmine; Neuromuscular block; Queimaduras; Rocuronium; Sugamadex; Sugammadex