Passive Smoking Also Affects Recovery from Anaesthesia.

The study of Ozturk et al. (1), which was entitled ‘Effect of smoking on reversing neuromuscular block’ and published in Turk J Anaesthesiol Reanim 2016; 44: 206-211, compared the duration of antagonism and efficacy of sugammadex in smokers vs. non-smokers (1). The authors reported that the muscle relaxant was associated with a shorter duration of clinical efficacy and prolonged intubation time and time to reach TOF 0.7–0.8–0.9 values in smokers, albeit statistically non-significant.