Montreal—Although peripheral nerve stimulation is commonly used to assess neuromuscular transmission when dosing neuromuscular blocking agents and reversal drugs, quantitative twitch monitors have been shown to be more accurate than palpation for measuring the train-of-four (TOF) ratio.
But which type of monitor—mechanomyography, acceleromyography or electromyography—is most accurate?
New research has concluded that the three techniques have substantial agreement, but