Muscle Relaxants
Muscle relaxants do not render patients unconscious or relieve pain. Instead, they are sometimes used after a patient is rendered unconscious (induction of anesthesia) to facilitate intubation or surgery by paralyzing skeletal muscle.
- Depolarizing muscle relaxants
- Succinylcholine (also known as suxamethonium in the UK, New Zealand, Australia and other countries, "Celokurin" or "celo" for short in Europe)
- Decamethonium
- Non-depolarizing muscle relaxants
- Short acting
- Mivacurium
- Rapacuronium
- Intermediate acting
- Atracurium
- Cisatracurium
- Rocuronium
- Vecuronium
- Long acting
- Alcuronium
- Doxacurium
- Gallamine
- Metocurine
- Pancuronium
- Pipecuronium
- Tubocurarine
- Short acting
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