Changes of extremity and laryngeal muscle electromyographic amplitudes after intravenous administration of vecuronium

Laryngoscope

Volumn 118, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2156-2160

  Shi, Yongbing ^a,b   Hou, Vivian ^a   Tucker, Anne ^a   Cohen, James ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Laryngeal EMG; Nondepolarizing muscle relaxant; Thyroid surgery

Indexed keywords

LIDOCAINE; VECURONIUM; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; NEUROMUSCULAR DEPOLARIZING AGENT;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARM MUSCLE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FLEXOR MUSCLE; LARYNX MUSCLE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE EXCITATION; MUSCLE TWITCH; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REPEATED DRUG DOSE; SWINE; ANIMAL; INJURY; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PATIENT MONITORING; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE; SKELETAL MUSCLE; VOCAL CORD PARALYSIS;

ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; ANIMALS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; LARYNGEAL MUSCLES; LIDOCAINE; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEUROMUSCULAR DEPOLARIZING AGENTS; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE; SWINE; VECURONIUM BROMIDE; VOCAL CORD PARALYSIS;

EID: 58149342157     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MLG.0b013e318184574e     Document Type: Article

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