Recovery from doxacurium infusion administered to produce immobility for more than four days in pediatric patients in the intensive care unit

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 307-314

  Brandom, Barbara W ^a   Yellon, Robert F ^a   Lloyd, Mark E ^a   Gronert, Brian J ^a   Theroux, Mary C ^b   Simhi, Eliahu ^a   Chakravorti, Sephali ^a   Venkataraman, Shekhar ^a   Dohar, Joseph E ^a   Shapiro, Andrew M ^a   Rimell, Frank L ^a   Reilly, James S ^b  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b NEMOURS ALFRED I DUPONT HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORAL HYDRATE; DIAZEPAM; DOXACURIUM; FENTANYL; HALOTHANE; LORAZEPAM; METHADONE; MORPHINE; NITROUS OXIDE; PROPOFOL;

ANESTHETIC RECOVERY; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EXTUBATION; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; INFANT; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LARYNGOPLASTY; MOTOR COORDINATION; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRACHEA RECONSTRUCTION; ULNAR NERVE;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; HUMANS; IMMOBILIZATION; INFANT; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; ISOQUINOLINES; LARYNX; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; NEUROMUSCULAR NONDEPOLARIZING AGENTS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TIME FACTORS; TRACHEA; ULNAR NERVE;

EID: 0031053379     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000539-199702000-00012     Document Type: Article

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