The use of low-dose mivacurium to facilitate insertion of the laryngeal mask airway

Anaesthesia

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 491-495

  Chui, P T ^a   Cheam, E W S ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Equipment; laryngeal mask airways; Neuromuscular relaxants; mivacurium

Indexed keywords

MIVACURIUM; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING AGENT; PROPOFOL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LARYNGEAL MASK; LARYNX SPASM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SORE THROAT; SWALLOWING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANESTHETICS, INTRAVENOUS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; ISOQUINOLINES; LARYNGEAL MASKS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROMUSCULAR NONDEPOLARIZING AGENTS; PHARYNGITIS; PROPOFOL;

EID: 0031899606     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2044.1998.00321.x     Document Type: Article

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