Wikipedia:Peer review/Tetanic fade/archive1

Tetanic fade

please peer review

Thanks, Wmedstudent (talk) 15:05, 9 April 2020 (UTC)

Hello. I'll do a couple of reviews.

• First issue: You clearly have some level of knowledge about this subject. However, most people don't. Good content on wikipedia is understandable to an appropriately broad audience. This article needs to be toned down. I understand that that's a had thing to do sometimes, but the vast majority of readers won't even be able to understand the intro.

"Tetanic fade refers to the diminishing muscle twitch response from an evoked potential stimulation of muscle under the effect of either a non-depolarizing neuromuscular blocking agent, or a muscle that is under a phase 2 depolarizing neuromuscular blocking agent." The intro should explain the concept in terms most people can understand. Words like "diminishing", "evoked potential", "non-depolarizing", "a phase 2 neuromuscular blocking agent". These terms aren't going to be understood by anyone who hasn't taken college-level chemistry/medicine. I know that just telling you to dumb it down is kind of a vague instruction, but it's by far the most important thing for this article.

• The pictures are fine for now, but if you have any graphs of actual quantitative data, they would be better.

• The "overview" section doesn't mention what this has to do with tetanic fade- it's just kind of an overview of the neuromuscular junction. Explain where and how the tetanic fade fits in.

• You don't need the sentence "as defined by Morgan's and Mikhail's clinical anesthesiology". Just cite the book at the end of the sentence with the definition in it.

• In the intro, explain where, why, and how often this term comes up in anaesthesiology. The intro should be like a mini-wikipedia article by itself.

• Hyperlink some more basic medical words like Neuron and sarcolemma.

• A picture in the top right of the article would make it feel better.

• As a ~5 seconds". Change to "as roughly five seconds".

• Spell out all numbers under ten.

• Add periods to i.e.

• "This response, termed phase 2 block, will demonstrate similar fade under tetanic stimulation, a diminishing response to tetanic stimulation where the initial response will be the strongest, and will produce lower and lower response intensity.". This sentence is laid out quite poorly.

• Citations: for the textbook citations, you don't have the ISBN number, which is always a good idea to add.

For the "Monitoring of neuromuscular block. Continuing Education in Anaesthesia Critical Care & Pain" citation, you have a link showing the general site you got it from, but not a link to the article itself. Link the article.

Pages 83-89 seems like a tad bit much for a text citing one simple fact. See if you can nail down the page where the fact is said.

• That might have been a lot, but the main takeaway should be that you need to "dumb this down" to make it readable for a normal audience. It's not a bad article, and given some time, you could maybe get it up to GA. More to come (maybe). Aven13 15:15, 7 May 2020 (UTC)