Geoffrey’s cardiovascular function improves, and hestarts following a healthier lifestyle. After a couple of years,his daughter takes him to the hospital for a surgical procedurerequiring mechanical.ventilation. To facilitate this, his doctorplans to use a non-depolarising neuromuscular blocker, with anappropriate reversal agent thereafter. The surgery goes well,however, Geoffrey experiences facial flushing, and startscomplaining of breathing difficulties thereafter. His doctordiagnoses him with non-cardiogenic pulmonary oedema due to thereversal agent, and decides to use furosemide to treat it. Based onthe procedure and clinical outcomes, i) suggest whichnon-depolarising neuromuscular blocker was used and explain yourreasoning, ii) explain how the non-depolarising neuromuscularblocker would facilitate mechanical ventilation by referring tophysiological processes, iii) explain whether the reversal agentmay cause peripheral or central side effects with at least oneassociated side effect other than already mentioned, and iv)explain how furosemide would treat his pulmonaryoedema. Â
