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  • Title: Use of continuous prolonged administration of atracurium in the ITU to a patient with myasthenia gravis.
    Author: Pollard BJ, Harper NJ, Doran BR.
    Journal: Br J Anaesth; 1989 Jan; 62(1):95-7. PubMed ID: 2917117.
    Abstract:
    The case is described of a patient with myasthenia gravis who required prolonged controlled ventilation for respiratory failure. Muscular relaxation was obtained with a continuous infusion of atracurium 5 mg h-1 for 45 h. Following cessation of the infusion, paralysis disappeared rapidly.
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