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Observations on the Short-Acting Relaxant Ro/3/0386
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 February 2018
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The present investigation covers a series of 110 treatments with electroplexy in which RO/3/0386 has been used as an ultra short-acting relaxant. This is a heteropoly-methylene-bis-trimethylammonium diiodide, Me3N + (CH2)4. S. S. (CH2)4N + Me3. 2I in aqueous solution which, being related to the decamethonium compounds, acts by depolarizing the motor end plate, and results in similar clinical effects to those produced by succinylcholine as described recently by Richards and Youngman (1952), Mayrhofer (1952), Bourne Collier and Somers (1952), and others.
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- Part I.—Original Articles
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- Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1953
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