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Anesthesia

Skeletal Muscle Relaxants

Key Points There are three broad classes of muscle relaxants: antispasmodic, antispasticity, and combination agents. Muscle relaxants may treat muscle spasticity in two manners. First, they can modify the stretch reflex arc, either by reducing the excitatory signals or by…

Practical Management of Pain
November 23, 2023

Anesthesia

Electromyography and Evoked Potentials

In almost all instances, tests and/or studies can help elucidate the cause of a problem. However, of equal, and possibly greater, importance is the potential for a test to introduce data that clouds the picture and adds complicating factors that…

Practical Management of Pain
November 23, 2023