Why patients are paralyzed for surgery (and how it's reversed)

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:   / atmospheric-music-portal  

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