Abstract
Twenty years ago, muscle relaxants were frequently used in the ICU in almost all critically ill patients (91%), but ten years later a large survey reported frequent use of nondepolarizing muscle relaxants in only 16%, and recently, only 1% of adults and 5% of neonatal and other paediatric patients were therapeutically paralysed, because of new sedative techniques [1].
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Conti, G., Marella, R., Marini, M.C. (2000). Use, Abuse and Misuse of Drugs in the ICU: Muscle Relaxants. In: Gullo, A. (eds) Anesthesia, Pain, Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine — A.P.I.C.E.. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-2286-7_55
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