Skeletal Muscle Relaxants Flashcards
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Nondepolarizing NM blockers
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Tubocararine, mivacurium, atracurium, vecuronium, rocuronium, pancuronium
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Only depolarizing muscle relaxant
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Succinylcholine
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MOA of Nondepolarizing blocksfs
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Competitive antagonists at skeletal muscle nicotinic Ach receptors
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Use of NM blockers
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Relaxation for anesthesia and general anesthesia
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Nondepolarizing NM blocker’s effects are reversed by
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Neostigmine
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Undergoes hoffman elimination
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Atracurium
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Elimination in bile
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Vecuronium
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Novel reversal agent for rocuronium
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Sugammadex
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Moderate block on cardiac muscarinic receptors
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Pancuronium
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Used in euthanasia, legal injection, strychine poisoning
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Pancuronium
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MOA of depolarizing NM blockers
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Agonist at ACH- N receptors causing initial twitch then persistent depolarizatiob
