background postoperative residual blockade, longer duration of action for neuromuscular blockade, and slower recovery were relatively common in elderly patients. objectives we aimed to investigate the safety of train-of-four ratio and clinical tests in the assessment of patient recovery, and to determine the effects of the rocuronium, vecuronium, and cisatracurium on intubation, extubation and ...

BACKGROUND: Rocuronium Bromide is a newer, low potency nondepolarising neuromuscular blocking agent. It is proven to be five to seven times less potent than vecuronium.The aim of the present study was to evaluate the effectiveness of 2ED95 (2 times effective dose 95) dose (0.6mg/kg) of rocuronium with regard to onset time, the intubating conditions and the duration of action and to compare it w...

Anaesthesia was induced with midazolam 1 mg, fentanyl 2 μg/kg and propofol 2 mg/kg intravenously. Vecuronium bromide 0.1 mg/kg intravenously was used for muscle relaxation followed by endotracheal intubation. Anaesthesia was maintained with 1-2% sevoflurane in 50% O2 and N2O gas mixture. Intraoperative analgesia was provided with incremental doses of intravenous fentanyl 1 μg/kg and muscle rela...

Possible interactions between three calcium entry blocking agents (nifedipine, verapamil and bepridil) and the non-depolarizing neuromuscular blocking agent, vecuronium bromide, were investigated in chloralose-anaesthetized cats. In i.v. doses which caused decreases in arterial pressure, the calcium entry blockers did not affect indirectly-elicited twitches of tibialis muscle, but did potentiat...