Revisiting the Classification of Neuromuscular Blockade, Aligning Clinical Practice and Research

Kim I Albers1, Oscar Diaz-Cambronero, Christiaan Keijzer

  • 1Departments of Anaesthesiology and Surgery, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, the Netherlands, kim.albers@radboudumc.nl Department of Anaesthesiology, Hospital Universitari i Politecnic la Fe, Valencia, Spain, Perioperative Medicine Research Group, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria la Fe, Valencia, Spain Department of Anaesthesiology, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, the Netherlands Department of Anaesthesiology, Canisius Wilhelmina Hospital, Nijmegen, the Netherlands Department of Surgery, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, the Netherlands Département d'Anesthésie et de Réanimation, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Nancy/Brabois, Nancy, France.

Anesthesia and Analgesia
|September 10, 2019
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