Muscle relaxants - Decamethonium

Anaesthesia and Intensive Care

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 709-

  Ball, C ^a   Westhorpe, R ^a  

^a Geoffrey Kaye Museum of Anaesthetic History   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURARE; DECAMETHONIUM; MUSCLE RELAXANT AGENT; NEOSTIGMINE; PENTAMETHONIUM; SUXAMETHONIUM; TUBOCURARINE CHLORIDE;

ANESTHETIC RECOVERY; CESAREAN SECTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; HAND GRIP; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; IMMOBILIZATION; LAPAROTOMY; MUSCLE TIGHTNESS; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING; NONHUMAN; NOTE; OBSTETRIC ANESTHESIA; RESUSCITATION; SPEECH DISORDER; SYNCOPE; TACHYPHYLAXIS; VITAL CAPACITY;

EID: 30044452561     PISSN: 0310057X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0310057x0503300601     Document Type: Note

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