Muscle Relaxants in Paediatric Anaesthesia — Measuring the Effects

The Muscle Relaxants in Anaesthesia

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Awareness, muscle relaxants and balanced anaesthesia.

The incidence of awareness during insufficient anaesthesia is reported to be one per cent. It is usually due to the use of muscle relaxants, a balanced technique and the lightest possible depth of anaesthesia. Increased incidences were noted in open-heart surgery, during intubation-endoscopy procedures and in caesarean delivery patients. Experiences of awareness are disturbing to patients, who ...

Cardiovascular effects of muscle relaxants.

Muscle Disorders and the Relaxants.

1 Muscle weakness is a feature of many illnesses but the present discussion will be confined mainly to conditions in which it is a manifestation of defects in the anterior horn cells, the motor nerves, the neuromuscular junction, or the muscle itself. The pathogenesis of these disorders is often ill-understood and more than one component of the neuromuscular system may be involved. Moreover, kn...

Effects of anaesthesia on paediatric lung function.

Respiratory adverse events are one of the major causes of morbidity and mortality in paediatric anaesthesia. Aside from predisposing conditions associated with an increased risk of respiratory incidents in children such as concurrent infections and chronic airway irritation, there are adverse respiratory events directly attributable to the impact of anaesthesia on the respiratory system. Anaest...