Skeletal Muscle Relaxants Flashcards
1
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Nondepolarizing NM blockers
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Tubocararine, mivacurium, atracurium, vecuronium, rocuronium, pancuronium
2
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MOA of Nondepolarizing blocksfs
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Competitive antagonists at skeletal muscle nicotinic Ach receptors
3
Q
Use of NM blockers
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Relaxation for anesthesia and general anesthesia
4
Q
Nondepolarizing NM blocker’s effects are reversed by
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Neostigmine
5
Q
Undergoes hoffman elimination
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Atracurium
6
Q
Elimination in bile
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Vecuronium
7
Q
Novel reversal agent for rocuronium
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Sugammadex
8
Q
Moderate block on cardiac muscarinic receptors
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Pancuronium
9
Q
Used in euthanasia, legal injection, strychine poisoning
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Pancuronium
10
Q
MOA of depolarizing NM blockers
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Agonist at ACH- N receptors causing initial twitch then persistent depolarizatiob
11
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Only depolarizing muscle relaxant
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Succinylcholine
