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Podcast: Beyond The Mask: Innovation & Opportunities For CRNAs
Episode: The Block Stops Here: A Deep Dive into Neuromuscular Blockades
Description: In this episode of Anesthesia Alchemy, Garry and Terry briefly discuss the history, physiology, and pharmacology of using non-depolarizing neuromuscular blocking drugs as anesthesia adjuncts. They focus on the pitfalls of administrating these agents to surgical patients and the problems associated with residual neuromuscular blockade in the post-anesthesia care unit.
Here’s some of what we discuss in this episode:
What are cyclodextrins and why are they useful?
Understanding the essentials of neuromuscular transmission.
What some of the newer intermediate-acting neuromuscular drugs do and how they work.
How the treatment has changed through the yea...