The Uneventful Use of Modern-Day Anesthetic Drugs in Post-polio Paralytic Patients: A Report of Three Cases

The Western world has been polio-free for decades; however, many are affected by the stigmata of polio in several countries, including India. While general anesthesia (GA) and subarachnoid block (SAB) have used successfully widely, all those cases were mostly done with relatively older drugs without additives. Therefore, further literature is needed to note effect newer anesthetic agents on post-polio paralytic patients both GA, viz., propofol, fentanyl, rocuronium, desflurane, SAB intrathecal hyperbaric bupivacaine adjuvants. We report three male from Central India, their 40s, residual paralysis (PPRP), sarcopenia, deformity lower limb scoliosis; one case was managed under GA using desflurane-based low-flow technique, other two SAB, fentanyl as an adjuvant adjuvant. series describes these modern-day techniques.