Paralytic drugs, or neuromuscular blocking agents (NMBAs), are powerful muscle relaxants used to prevent muscle movement during surgical procedures. They're also used during critical care, such as ...

Perioperative anaphylaxis due to neuromuscular blocking agents occurred in roughly 58 per 100,000 administrations, with nearly 20% of cases associated with morbidity. Most patients recovered fully, ...

September 16, 2010 — Neuromuscular blockade may improve outcomes in severe acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) without increasing muscle weakness, according to the results of a multicenter, ...

Nearly half of drug-caused deaths by health care workers involved drugs that were obtained from their place of work, new research finds. Patients receiving neuromuscular blocking medications as part ...

Sugammadex effectively reverses neuromuscular blockade in myasthenia gravis patients, ensuring rapid recovery and minimal complications. The review of 24 studies with 1679 patients showed no ...

Generalized myasthenia gravis (gMG) affects most patients through a handful of well-characterized neuromuscular junction autoantibodies, but a wide range of differences among patients affect the ...