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Preeti More1, Vandana V Laheri2, Tejasi Waigankar3
1Associate Professor, Department of Anaesthesiology, ESI PGI-MSR, MGM Hospital , Parel, Mumbai-12, Maharashtra, India .
Abstract:
Delayed recovery/awakening/ emergence can occur under anaesthesia and is multifactorial, could be drug or non drug related. Similarly, we report a case of delayed recovery in a 68-year-old patient, for laparoscopic cholecystectomy, a known case of hypertension, bronchial asthma and hypothyroidism. Preoperatively, she was optimised for her medical disorders; however, she had delayed recovery from general anaesthesia. The delayed recovery, often, would be expected in a case of hypothyroidism, however in our patient it was found to be associated with inadvertent hypokalemia.
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