Adjunct to general anaesthesia, to facilitate endotracheal intubation and to provide skeletal muscle relaxation during surgery or mechanical ventilation.
Contraindication: What are the special precautions to be followed?
Under following conditions, use of this medication is inadvisable. Its use should be withhold as it would cause harm to the patient Hypersensitivity.
Other Precaution to be observed while taking this medication
Renal and hepatic impairment. Pregnancy, lactation and elderly. Neuromuscular disease e.g. myasthenia gravis, Eaton-Lambert syndrome or after poliomyelitis. Hypothermia, burns patients. Severe electrolyte disturbances.
What are possible side effects of this medication ?
Muscle weakness, paralysis, muscle atrophy (after long term use), hypersensitivity reactions e.g. urticaria and erythema. Anaphylaxis, respiratory failure, apnoea.