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Effects Other than Relaxation of Non-Depolarizing Muscle Relaxants

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Muscle Relaxants

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It is important that anesthesiologists be aware of the possible side effects of the muscle relaxants (MR) they use. Although several reviews have dealt with this subject (Paton, 1959; Foldes, 1960; Bowman, 1982; 1990; Hunter, 1987; Miller, 1992; Lien, 1994), they mainly summarized the unwanted effects of MRs from the clinical point of view and paid little attention to the mechanism of these actions, despite the fact that not infrequently the lack of such knowledge has led to improper selection of muscle relaxants (MR) and subsequently to operative and postoperative complications.

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Vizi, E.S. (1995). Effects Other than Relaxation of Non-Depolarizing Muscle Relaxants. In: Fukushima, K., Ochiai, R. (eds) Muscle Relaxants. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-66896-1_10

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