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Neuromuscular blockade is an integral part of neuroanesthetic practice, both during induction of anesthesia as well as during anesthetic maintenance. Not only do emergent neurosurgical procedures often require facilitation of rapid-sequence endotracheal intubation, but the light levels of anesthesia required for most craniotomies necessitates the use of prolonged intraoperative neuromuscular blockade in order to prevent adventitious movement or coughing and straining. Nature, however, lays many traps for the unsuspecting anesthesiologist when neuromuscular blockade is induced in a patient with neuropathology.
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Bedford, R.F. (1993). Muscle Relaxants in Neuroanesthesia. In: Sperry, R.J., Johnson, J.O., Stanley, T.H. (eds) Anesthesia and the Central Nervous System. Developments in Critical Care Medicine and Anesthesiology, vol 28. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1610-7_19
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