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Table 1 Patient and Case Characteristics

From: Observational study on patterns of neuromuscular blockade reversal

Patient/Case characteristics

Did not receive neostigmine

Received neostigmine

Total N = 135,633

N = 18,510 (13.6 %)

N = 117,123 (86.4 %)

Agea

51 ± 18

52 ± 17

Surgical case duration (minutes)b

144 [87,238]

113 [69,177]

Emergent surgery

835 (4.5)

6095 (5.2)

ASA status

  

ASA class 1 or 2

10,976 (59.3)

68,910 (58.8)

ASA class 3 or 4

7534 (40.7)

48,213 (41.2)

Gender

 Male

9484 (51.2)

63,165 (53.9)

 Female

9026 (48.8)

53,957 (46.1)

World Health Organization BMI categories

 Underweight, BMI <18.5

481 (2.7)

2456 (2.2)

 Normal Weight, BMI 18.5–24.9

5466 (30.8)

3,2491 (28.7)

 Overweight, BMI 25.0–29.9

5509 (31.0)

35,302 (31.2)

 Class I Obesity, BMI 30.0–34.9

3346 (18.8)

22,634 (20.0)

 Class II Obesity, BMI 35.0–39.9

1645 (9.3)

11,321 (10.0)

 Class III Obesity, BMI ≥40

1326 (7.5)

8973 (7.9)

Last Recorded TOF

 0/4

347 (1.9)

3557 (3.0)

 1/4

478 (2.6)

6987 (6.0)

 2/4

510 (2.8)

7751 (6.6)

 3/4

425 (2.3)

7170 (6.1)

 4/4

4187 (22.6)

82,457 (70.4)

 Undocumented

12,563 (67.9)

9201 (7.9)

Surgical service

 Dental

734 (4.0)

2904 (2.4)

 General

2275 (12.3)

20,532 (17.5)

 Gynecology

1000 (5.4)

11,742 (10.0)

 Neurology

1937 (10.5)

9395 (8.0)

 Ophthalmology

443 (2.4)

1630 (1.4)

 Orthopedics

2843 (15.4)

18,273 (15.6)

 Other

1296 (7.0)

8763 (7.5)

 Otolaryngology

3691 (19.9)

8452 (7.2)

 Plastics

1492 (8.1)

7814 (6.7)

 Radiology

304 (1.6)

2056 (1.8)

 Thoracic

533 (2.9)

5754 (4.9)

 Transplant

419 (2.3)

4810 (4.1)

 Urology

1093 (5.9)

10,657 (9.1)

 Vascular

450 (2.4)

4341 (3.7)

Neuromuscular blockade agentc

 Atracurium

1435 (7.8)

4528 (3.9)

 Cisatracurium

3613 (19.5)

17,892 (15.3)

 Pancuronium

1402 (7.6)

657 (0.6)

 Rocuronium

1867 (10.1)

7069 (6.0)

 Vecuronium

10,720 (57.9)

88,526 (75.6)

 Multiple NMBAs

521 (2.8)

1544 (1.3)

 Succinylcholine with NMBA

5891 (31.8)

28,608 (24.4)

  1. ASA American Society of Anaesthesiologists, BMI body mass index, TOF train-of-four, NMBA neuromuscular blockade agent
  2. aAge is represented as mean ± standard deviation
  3. bSurgical case duration is non-parametric and presented as median [25th to 75th percentile]
  4. cCases may have received more than one type of neuromuscular blocking agent