Role of noninvasive ventilation in perioperative patients with neuromuscular disease: a clinical case

• Main Authors: Ana Marinho, Mario José Guimarães, Neusa Cristina Ribeiro Lages, Carlos Correia
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Anestesiologia 2016-02-01
• Series: Revista Brasileira de Anestesiologia
• Subjects: Ventilação não invasiva; Anestesia locorregional; Miosite por corpos de inclusão
• Online Access: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-70942016000100072&lng=en&tlng=en

The inclusion body myositis is an inflammatory myopathy that leads to chronic muscle inflammation associated with muscle weakness. It is characterized by a restrictive ventilatory syndrome requiring ventilatory support under non-invasive ventilation. The authors describe a clinical case and the anaesthetic management of a patient with inclusion body myopathy candidate for vertebroplasty, which highlights the importance of locoregional anaesthesia and of noninvasive ventilation and includes assisted cough techniques, maintained throughout the perioperative period.