Can succinylcholine be abandoned?

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 90, Issue 5 SUPPL., 2000, Pages

  Cook, D Ryan ^a  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MIVACURIUM; RAPACURONIUM BROMIDE; ROCURONIUM; SUXAMETHONIUM; VECURONIUM;

ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ANESTHESIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; ELECTIVE SURGERY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; HEART ARREST; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HYPERKALEMIA; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE ABNORMALITY; LARYNX SPASM; LUNG EDEMA; LUNG HEMORRHAGE; MALIGNANT HYPERTHERMIA; MYOPATHY; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

EID: 0034016289     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000539-200005001-00006     Document Type: Review

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