Assessment of the postoperative residual curarisation using the train of four stimulation with acceleromyography

Acta Anaesthesiologica Belgica

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 83-86

  Kone Fezing, A ^a,c   D'Hollander, A ^b   Boogaerts, J G ^a  

^a Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Charleroi   (Belgium)

^b ERASME HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^c NONE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Anaesthesia : Adult; Monitoring : Neuromuscular function; Neuromuscular relaxant : Atracurium

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042707216     PISSN: 00015164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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