REVELATOR

During surgery under general anaesthesia, it is often necessary to use a curare to produce, in a selective and controlled manner, a deep hypotonia of the voluntary striated muscles which facilitates or makes possible the accomplishment of care procedures. The control of the effects produced by the curare used must be precise enough both to meet surgical needs and to ensure, for the patient's recovery, the return of motor activity useful for autonomy. In current practice, this return to normality is only tested by the use of low frequency - 2Hz - transcutaneous electrical stimulation.

The Revelator project has developed the medical device consisting of an instrumented handle (ITF) and software (Visual-ITF) as a quantitative method, revealing the effects of low and high frequency electrical stimulation - 30 Hz. Promising initial observational studies have been conducted and others are underway to explore more fully the return to normality and thus ensure the absence of residual curarisation when the patient wakes up.