A priming technique accelerates onset of neuromuscular blockade at the laryngeal adductor muscles

Canadian Journal of Anesthesia

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 50-54

  Schmidt, Joachim ^a   Irouschek, Andrea ^a   Muenster, Tino ^a   Hemmerling, Thomas M ^b   Albrecht, Sven ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLACEBO; ROCURONIUM; SUXAMETHONIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ARTICLE; BOLUS INJECTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LARYNX MUSCLE; NERVE BLOCK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE; TRANSCUTANEOUS NERVE STIMULATION; ULNAR NERVE;

EID: 14944386851     PISSN: 0832610X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03018580     Document Type: Article

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