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Muscle Relaxants and their speed of onset

Anaesthesia Coffee Break

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What Are the Patient Factors of Sedimental Rapid Induction?

Site of action, access to central compartment and interaction with other drugs. Fast contracting fibers have a higher density of the nicotinic acetyl cone receptors more so than slow contracting fibers. So they might have more rapid onset with these fast contracting fibers, but maybe have a less intense block. You can get the downregulation of the receptor in myasthenia gravis. And if someone's got high cardiac output state for whatever reason, then you're again logically thinking that this could help them.

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