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Muscle Relaxants Flashcards

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Drugs used to reduce abnormally elevated tone caused by neurologic or muscle end plste disease

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Spasmolytic drugs

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Drugs used to produce muscle paralysis to facilitate surgery or assisted ventilation

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Neuromuscular blocking drugs

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Type of NM blockade: paralysis from persistent depolarization of the end plate

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Depolarizing blockade

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Type of NM blockade: paralysis from pharmacologic antagonism of Ach receptors at the end plate

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Non-depolarizing / Stabilizing blockade

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Reverses non-depolarizing blockade

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NEOSTIGMINE

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Non-depolarizing blocker with the most rapid time of onset

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Rocuronium

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Short acting non-depolarizing NM blocker

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Mivacurium

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Indication for non-depolarizing blocker

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Skeletal muscle relaxation during intubation and general anesthesia

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Neostigmine MOA

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Cholinesterase inhibitor

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Non-depolaring NM blocker MOA

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Competitive antagonist at skeletal muscle nicotinic Ach receptor

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Muscle relaxant metabolized by pseudocholinesterase

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Mivacurium

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Intermediate acting non-depolarizing NM blocker

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Rocuronium
Atracurium
Vecuronium

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Nover reversal agent for Rocuronium

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Sugammadex

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Non-depolarizing NM blocker causing bronchospasm

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Atracurium

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Rapid spontaneous elimination of Atracurium

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Hoffman Elimination

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Non-depolarizing NM blocker eliminated in the bile

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Vecuronium

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Long acting non-depolarizing NM blocker

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Pancuronium & Tubocurarine

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Lethal Injection cocktail

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Thiopental, Pancuronium, Potassium chloride

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Phase of Depolarizing NM blockade:

Initial electric discharge - Membrane depolarizes - Transient fasiculations - Flaccid paralysis

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Phase 1 - Depolarization

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Phase of Depolarizing NM blockade:

Membrane repolarizes - Receptor does not respond to Ach

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Phase 2 - Desensitization

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Initial twitch then persistent depolarization

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Depolarizing NM blocker

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Metabolized by pseudocholinesterase

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Mivacurium and Succinylcholine

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Interaction involved with Malignant Hyperthermia

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Succinylcholine and Halothane

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Massive calcium release by the SR of the skeletal muscle, mediated by ryanodin receptors

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Malignant Hyperthermia

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Early sign of Malignant hyperthermia

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Malignant hyperthermia DOC

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Dantrolene

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