TY  - CHAP
M1  - Book, Section
TI  - Skeletal Muscle Relaxants
A1  - Kruidering-Hall, Marieke
A1  - Campbell, Lundy
A2  - Katzung, Bertram G.
A2  - Trevor, Anthony J.
PY  - 2015
T2  - Basic & Clinical Pharmacology, 13e
AB  - CASE  STUDYA  30-year-old  woman  is  rushed  to  the  emergency  department  at  a  major  trauma  center  after  a  motor  vehicle  crash.*  Although  in  significant  pain,  she  is  awake,  alert,  and  able  to  give  a  brief  history.  She  states  that  she  was  the  driver  and  was  wearing  a  seatbelt.  There  were  no  passengers  in  the  car.  Her  past  medical  history  is  significant  only  for  asthma,  for  which  she  has  been  intubated  once  in  the  past.  She  has  no  allergies  to  medications.  There  are  multiple  lacerations  on  her  face  and  extremities  and  a  large  open  fracture  of  her  right  femur.  An  orthopedic  surgeon  has  scheduled  immediate  operative  repair  of  the  femur  fracture,  and  the  plastic  surgeon  wants  to  suture  the  facial  lacerations  at  the  same  time.  You  decide  to  intubate  the  patient  for  the  procedure.  What  muscle  relaxant  would  you  choose?  Would  you  choose  the  same  agent  if  she  had  experienced  a  30%  total  body  burn  in  a  fire  at  the  time  of  the  accident?  What  if  the  past  medical  history  included  right-sided  hemiparesis  of  10  years’  duration?  
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PB  - McGraw-Hill Medical
CY  - New York, NY
Y2  - 2021/03/07
UR  - accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1104845159
ER  -