Neostigmine: How much is necessary for patients who receive a nondepolarizing neuromuscular blocking agent?

Anesthesiology

Volumn 112, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 16-18

  Lien, Cynthia A ^a  

^a NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; ATRACURIUM; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; NEOSTIGMINE; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING AGENT; VECURONIUM; ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITOR;

CLINICAL PRACTICE; DISEASE EXACERBATION; EDITORIAL; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NEUROMUSCULAR FUNCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY ACIDOSIS; ANESTHETIC RECOVERY; ANIMAL; CONVALESCENCE; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG ANTAGONISM; DRUG EFFECT; ELECTROSTIMULATION; METABOLISM; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NOTE; PATIENT MONITORING;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; ANESTHESIA RECOVERY PERIOD; ANIMALS; CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITORS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; HUMANS; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; NEOSTIGMINE; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; NEUROMUSCULAR NONDEPOLARIZING AGENTS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION;

EID: 74049120777     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: 15281175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ALN.0b013e3181c5388f     Document Type: Editorial

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