II. Rapacuronium: Why did it fail as a replacement for succinylcholine?

British Journal of Anaesthesia

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 163-165

  White, P F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCOPYRRONIUM BROMIDE; MIVACURIUM; NEOSTIGMINE; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING AGENT; RAPACURONIUM BROMIDE; ROCURONIUM; SUXAMETHONIUM; DRUG DERIVATIVE; RAPACURONIUM; VECURONIUM;

AMBULATORY SURGERY; ANESTHESIST; ANESTHETIC RECOVERY; BRONCHOSPASM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG COST; DRUG MARKETING; DRUG SAFETY; EDITORIAL; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; HYPERKALEMIA; MALIGNANT HYPERTHERMIA; MYALGIA; OUTPATIENT; PATIENT CARE; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PHARMACY; POSTOPERATIVE NAUSEA AND VOMITING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIDE EFFECT; UNITED STATES; XEROSTOMIA; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER;

AMBULATORY SURGICAL PROCEDURES; BRONCHIAL SPASM; HUMANS; NEUROMUSCULAR NONDEPOLARIZING AGENTS; SUCCINYLCHOLINE; VECURONIUM BROMIDE;

EID: 0036007928     PISSN: 00070912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bja/88.2.163     Document Type: Editorial

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