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The cardiovascular effects of vecuronium during halothane anaesthesia
J Kristensen1, H S Helbo-Hansen, P Toft
1Department of Anaesthesiology, Odense University Hospital, Denmark.
Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica
|August 1, 1989
Abstract:
In a double-blind, placebo-controlled, prospective randomized trial in 70 otherwise healthy patients undergoing elective surgery of the thyroid gland, the breast, the inguinal canal or the lower limbs, we studied the cardiovascular effects of vecuronium during halothane-nitrous oxide anaesthesia. Vecuronium was found to have no clinically significant influence on heart rate or mean arterial pressure, before or during surgery. Bradycardia was a rare event under the special conditions of the study design.