Abstract
Today, muscle relaxants are the most important adjunct in anesthesiology. Their purpose is to maintain muscular relaxation over a long period at a predetermined level of anesthesia appropriate for surgery. Consequently, both the patient’s condition and perioperative requirements have to be considered. In intensive care, numerous therapeutic procedures also have to be taken into account. Broadly, two groups of relaxants with different mechanisms of action are available for clinical use — depolarizing and nondepolarizing substances (Lee and Atkinson 1978, Benzer et al. 1982).
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Pichlmayr, I., Lips, U., Künkel, H. (1984). Muscle Relaxants. In: The Electroencephalogram in Anesthesia. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-69562-9_9
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