Continuing Education in Anaesthesia Critical Care and Pain | Volume 4 Number 1 | 2004
© The Board of Management and Trustees of the British Journal of Anaesthesia 2004
Pharmacology of neuromuscular blocking drugs
University Department of Anaesthesia, University Clinical Department, Duncan Building, Daulby Street, Liverpool
University Department of Anaesthesia, University Clinical Department, Duncan Building, Daulby Street, Liverpool L69 3GA
Tel: 0151 7064008, Fax: 0151 7065884, E-mail: jennie{at}liv.ac.uk (for correspondence)
Neuromuscular blocking drugs (NMBDs) have become an established part of anaesthetic practice since Griffith and Johnson in Montreal first described the use of curare to facilitate muscle relaxation in a healthy man undergoing an appendicectomy in 1942.