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Muscle Relaxants and Respiration

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Muscle relaxants may influence respiration by depressing the respiratory center, inhibiting neuromuscular (n. m.) transmission of the respiratory muscles, or altering airway resistance and/or compliance. Of these three possibilities the first and the third are relatively unimportant from the clinical point of view and require only brief consideration.

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  1. Institut universitaire d’Anesthésiologie, Hôpital Cantonal, CH-1211, Genève, Schweiz

    M. Gemperle

  2. Institut für Anaesthesiologie, Universitätskliniken, Kantonsspital, CH-8006, Zürich, Schweiz

    G. Hossli

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Foldes, F.F. (1974). Muscle Relaxants and Respiration. In: Gemperle, M., Hossli, G., Tschirren, B. (eds) Anaesthesie Atmung — Kreislauf. Anaesthesiology and Resuscitation / Anaesthesiologie und Wiederbelebung / Anesthésiologie et Réanimatión, vol 80. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-65742-9_7

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