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Mivacurium
1Department of Anaesthetics, Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London.
British Journal of Hospital Medicine
|March 5, 1997
Abstract:
The muscle relaxant mivacurium was introduced in 1988 as a non-depolarizing drug with the pharmacokinetic profile of suxamethonium. Like suxamethonium, mivacurium is hydrolyzed by plasma cholinesterase; however, it has proved to be slower in onset and considerably longer in its duration of action. Inspite of this, in clinically used doses, it is somewhat shorter acting than alternative non-depolarizing drugs.