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Prolongation of rapacuronium neuromuscular blockade by clindamycin and magnesium
1University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Lexington, Kentucky 40536, USA. PaulSloan@prodigy.net
Anesthesia and Analgesia
|January 5, 2002
Abstract
Implications:
We report a prolonged neuromuscular block with the nondepolarizing muscle relaxant rapacuronium in the presence of clindamycin. Even when using "short-acting" muscle relaxants, the anesthesiologist must routinely monitor the neuromuscular function.