Does age or pseudocholinesterase activity predict mivacurium infusion rate in children?

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 39-43

  Markakis, Dorothea A ^a   Hart, Paul S ^a   Lau, Marie ^a   Brown, Ronald ^a   Fisher, Dennis M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLINESTERASE; ISOFLURANE; MIVACURIUM; NITRIC OXIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHOLINESTERASE BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HUMAN; INFUSION; MUSCLE TWITCH; PARALYSIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; ULNAR NERVE;

ADULT; AGING; CHILD; HUMANS; INFANT; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; ISOQUINOLINES; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROMUSCULAR NONDEPOLARIZING AGENTS; PSEUDOCHOLINESTERASE;

EID: 0030049264     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000539-199601000-00008     Document Type: Article

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