Is succinylcholine appropriate or obsolete in the intensive care unit?

Critical Care

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 245-246

  Booij, L H D J ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATRACURIUM; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; CHOLINESTERASE; CISATRACURIUM; CORTICOSTEROID; HISTAMINE; MIVACURIUM; MUSCLE RELAXANT AGENT; POTASSIUM; ROCURONIUM; SUXAMETHONIUM; VECURONIUM;

ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BREATHING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG METABOLISM; DRUG USE; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HEART ARREST; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; HYPERCAPNIA; HYPERKALEMIA; HYPERSALIVATION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE ABNORMALITY; MALIGNANT HYPERTHERMIA; MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION; MORTALITY; MUSCLE FIBER MEMBRANE; MUSCLE HYPERTONIA; MYALGIA; NERVE ENDING; NEUROPATHY; POTASSIUM TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; RHABDOMYOLYSIS; SIDE EFFECT; VENTILATOR;

EID: 0034774889     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/cc1039     Document Type: Article

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