Muscle Relaxants -Masterly Manipulates Neuromuscular Function

Neuromuscular relaxants--1997.

T HE sixth International Neuromuscular Meeting was held in Paris in August. The original meeting, in London in 1975, was to act as a forum for investigators and industry (Burroughs Wellcome and Organon) in the hope that such a liaison would lead to the development of muscle relaxants needed by the clinician. In so far as the intermediate relaxants, atracttrium and vecuronium, were developed, th...

Use of muscle relaxants.

Muscle relaxants and antispasticity agents.

Muscle relaxants make up a heterogeneous group of agents and can have a clinically significant role in the treatment of chronic muscle pain. These medications are not without possible serious side effects; hence, care should be taken in deciding on their appropriateness and ongoing monitoring performed, if prescribed.

Muscle relaxants and Bier's block.

Sir We are grateful for the opportunity to reply to your correspondent. If no less an authority than Professor J. M. Hunter can write a sentence beginning 'With the advent of the two new non-depolarizing muscle relaxants, atracurium and vecurionium . . .' (Hunter, 1987), we feel we may use the same expression. Ethical committee approval for the addition of atracurium to Bier's blocks was obtain...

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...