The Effect of Patient Weight and Provider Training and Experience on Dosing of Rocuronium

Table 2

Univariate linear mixed effects model using BMI category as a predictor for rocuronium maintenance dose in mg/kg of IBW. All patients should receive similar doses based on IBW, but in this study obese patients received higher doses.

BMI category	Estimate (mg/kg of IBW)	value
Very severely underweight	0.287	0.97
Severely underweight	0.285	0.98
Underweight	0.283	0.83
Normal (reference)	0.286
Overweight	0.294	0.09
Obese class I	0.293	0.18
Obese class II	0.304	0.02
Obese class III	0.346	<0.0001