There are two types of neuromuscular blocking agents: depolarizing agents and nondepolarizing agents. These agents are classified according to their mechanism of action. Succinylcholine is the ...

The mechanisms underlying the beneficial effect of neuromuscular blocking agents remain speculative. A brief period of paralysis early in the course of ARDS may facilitate lung-protective ...

Its mechanism of action is undecided ... inward sodium current that is sensitive to the calcium channel blocker (CCB) nifedipine in isolated human atrial myocytes. It has been proposed that ...

β-blockers exert an antihypertensive effect via several mechanisms of action: central inhibition of sympathetic nervous system outflow, inhibition of the renin–angiotensin system by decreasing ...

While the precise mechanism of galantamine’s action ... Nursing mothers. Potentiates neuromuscular blockers (eg, succinylcholine), cholinesterase inhibitors, cholinergic agonists (eg, bethanechol).

Reports had originally speculated that this was some diabolical action by the Assad regime ... the infants received atracurium, a neuromuscular blocking agent. These drugs are used to temporarily ...