Use of combination of rocuronium and sugammadex in heart transplant recipients

Anaesthesia and Intensive Care

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 903-904

  Gomez Rios M A ^a   Lopez L R ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEOSTIGMINE; ROCURONIUM; SUGAMMADEX;

AGED; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; CASE REPORT; CHILD; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EXTUBATION; HEART RATE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; SCHOOL CHILD; SINUS ARREST; THYROIDECTOMY;

AGED; ANDROSTANOLS; CHILD; GAMMA-CYCLODEXTRINS; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKADE;

EID: 84866534376     PISSN: 0310057X     EISSN: 14480271     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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