doxacurium

[dok″sah-ku´re-um]

a long-acting neuromuscular blocking agent used as the chloride salt as a skeletal muscle relaxant during surgery and endotracheal intubation.

doxacurium

/dox·a·cu·ri·um/ (dok″sah-ku´re-um) a long-acting neuromuscular blocking agent used as the chloride salt as a skeletal muscle relaxant during surgery and endotracheal intubation.

doxacurium

a nondepolarizing neuromuscular blocker.

indications This drug is used to facilitate endotracheal intubation and skeletal muscle relaxation during mechanical ventilation, surgery, or general anesthesia.

contraindications Known hypersensitivity to this drug prohibits its use. This drug must not be used in neonates.

doxacurium

Anesthesiology A long-acting muscle relaxing anesthetic. See Muscle relaxant, Nondepolarizing agent. Cf Depolarizing agent.

doxacurium

a long-acting, nondepolarizing muscle relaxant.

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Benzylisoquinolinium compounds, such as d-tubocurarine, metocurine, doxacurium, atracurium, and mivacurium, are more likely to cause direct mast cell degranulation than aminosteroid compounds such as pancuronium, vecuronium, rocuronium, and pipecuronium.

Anaphylaxis during peri-anesthetic period--review of research

Agents such as vecuronium, doxacurium, and cisatracurium have minimal effects.

Neuromuscular blocking agents: mechanism of action, hazards, and USE in mechanical ventilation

Strangely, doxacurium is included in the muscle relaxant section and not with the other neuromuscular blocking drugs.

Meyler's Side Effects of Drugs Used in Anesthesia, 15th ed

Other agents include cistracurium, doxacurium and mivacurium, all of which have onsets within a few minutes and can last for about an hour.