Neuromuscular blocking drugs Flashcards
The main site of action of neuromuscular blocking agents (muscle relaxants) is on the?
Nicotinic cholinergic receptors at the endplate of muscles
Is a blocking agent that produces depolarization
at the endplate and binds to extrajunctional receptors..
Succinylcholine
The TOF fade is difficult to evaluate manually or visually during recovery when TOF ratio is >
0.4
When using mivacurium, reversal with anticholinesterases should be attempted only when all four twitches in response to TOF stimulation are visible at what muscle?
Adductor pollicis muscle
Most widely used measurement for awareness
Bispectral index
Threshold for complete neuromuscular recovery is a train-of-four (TOF) ratio of?
0.9
The terminal portion of the axon is a specialized structure, designed for the production and release of acetylcholine.
Synapse
The synapse is separated from the endplate of the muscle fiber by a narrow gap, called?
Which is approximatelywhich is approximately how wide (nm or um)
Synaptic cleft
50 nm or 0.05 um
Under resting conditions, the electrical potential of the inside of a nerve cell is negative with respect to the outside which is how much mV?
-90 mV
Acetycholine is released in?
Quanta or packets
Acetylcholine is synthesized from choline and acetate and packaged into __ vesicles
When an action potential invades the nerve terminal, approximately ____ quanta are released, unloading approximately ____ acetylcholine molecules?
45 nm
200 to 400 quanta
1 to 4 million
Each vesicle contains ____ acetylcholine molecules.
5,000 to 10,000
Some of these vesicles cluster near the cell membrane opposite the crests of the junctional folds of the endplate, in areas called?
active zones
Neuromuscular blocking agents functions (3)
- Improve conditions for tracheal intubation
- Provide immobility for surgery
- Facilitate mechanical ventilation
Suggamadex is a selective binding agent for NMBAs such as (2)
- Rocuronium
2. Vecuronium
The main site of action of NMBAs is on the?
Nicotinic cholinergic receptor
Is a specialized portion of the membrane of the muscle fiber where nicotinic acetylcholine receptors are concentrated
Endplate (especially at the crest of the folds)
Calcium, which enters the nerve terminal through channels that open in response to depolarization, is required for ____________ and ________.
Vesicle fusion and release
Each impulse releases ___% to ____ % of the 75,000
to 100,000 vesicles in the nerve terminal.
0.2% to 0.5%
The receptors at the endplate are of the nicotinic cholinergic type.
They are members of the class of _____ ion channels, to which glycine, 5HT3, and GABA receptors belong.
Cysloop ligand gated
The nicotinic subtype present at the neuromuscular junction is made up of two identical subunits, designated _, and three others, called _, _, and _.
a, and three others, called B, S, and E
The muscle action potential has a duration of ___ ms?
5 to 15
Early in development, receptors are slightly different from those found at the adult endplate: They have a ___ subunit instead of an E subunit.
y subunit (fetal receptors) instead of an E subunit
As maturation continues, the y subunit is substituted by an E subunit, which is characteristic of the adult type, junctional receptor. In humans, the switch occurs in the ___ trimester of pregnancy.
third