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Re-establishment of neuromuscular block by rocuronium after sugammadex administration

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  1. Summary of product characteristics. Waiting times for re-administration with neuromuscular blocking agents after reversal with sugammadex. Available from URL: http://www.ema.europa.eu/docs/en_GB/document_library/EPAR_-_Product_Information/human/000885/WC500052310.pdf (accessed March 2011).

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Acknowledgments

The authors sincerely thank Professor Aaron F. Kopman, Weill Cornell Medical College, for his helpful assistance with manuscript revision and Dr. Lucas Mengibar Fuentes, vascular surgeon, for his collaboration in patient care.

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Gloria Veiga-Ruiz, Nuria Dominguez-Serrano, and Joaquin Fabregat-López have received speakers’ fees from MSD. No external funding and no competing interest declared.

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    Joaquin Fabregat-López MD, Gloria Veiga-Ruiz MD, Nuria Dominguez-Serrano MD & Maria Rosario García-Martinez MD

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Fabregat-López, J., Veiga-Ruiz, G., Dominguez-Serrano, N. et al. Re-establishment of neuromuscular block by rocuronium after sugammadex administration. Can J Anesth/J Can Anesth 58, 658–659 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12630-011-9499-1

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