%0 Journal Article %T Efficacy of Dexmedetomidine as an Adjunct in Aiding Video laryngoscope-Assisted Assessment of Vocal Cord Movements at Extubation Following Total Thyroidectomy %A Jerry Paul %A Lakshmi Kumar %A Santhosh Djearadjane %A Sunil Rajan %J Archive of "Anesthesia, Essays and Researches". %D 2019 %R 10.4103/aer.AER_150_18 %X Assessment of vocal cord movements following total thyroidectomy diagnoses recurrent laryngeal nerve injury. Use of videoscope along with sedatives may blunt hemodynamic responses seen with the conduct of direct laryngoscopy for assessing vocal cord mobility %K Dexmedetomidine %K hemodynamic %K thyroidectomy %K video laryngoscope %K vocal cord %U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6444953/