Postoperative residual curarisation: Complication or malpractice?

Acta Anaesthesiologica Belgica

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 245-249

  Cammu, G ^a  

^a OLV HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANESTHETIC AGENT; ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT; ATRACURIUM; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; CURARE; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING AGENT; SUXAMETHONIUM; VECURONIUM;

ANESTHESIA; ANESTHESIA COMPLICATION; ARTICLE; BRADYCARDIA; CONVULSION; FASCICULATION; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; HYPOVENTILATION; HYPOXEMIA; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE ABNORMALITY; LUNG ASPIRATION; MALIGNANT HYPERTHERMIA; MASSETER MUSCLE; MUSCLE SPASM; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; MYALGIA; MYOGLOBINURIA; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING; NEUROMUSCULAR TRANSMISSION; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RESIDUAL CURARIZATION; RHABDOMYOLYSIS; TACHYCARDIA;

ANESTHESIA RECOVERY PERIOD; HUMANS; MALPRACTICE; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; MOTOR NEURONS; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING AGENTS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 5044235628     PISSN: 00015164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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