Extremely prolonged vecuronium clearance in a brain death case

Anesthesiology

Volumn 95, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 1023-1024

  Kainuma, Motoshi ^a,b   Miyake, Toshiyuki ^a   Kanno, Tetsuo ^a  

^a Department of Anesthesiology ^*

^b FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VECURONIUM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEATH; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; DOSE RESPONSE; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; NEUROMUSCULAR FUNCTION; NEUROMUSCULAR TRANSMISSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0034796267     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000542-200110000-00035     Document Type: Article

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