Multiple choice

Which of the following is a rapidly acting, non-depolarizing neuromuscular blocker?

  1. Oxymorphone

  2. Pentazocine

  3. Decamethonium

  4. Rapacuronium
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Explanation

Rapacuronium is a rapidly acting, non-depolarizing neuromuscular blocker formerly used in modern anaesthesia, to aid and enable endotracheal intubation, which is often necessary to assist in the controlled ventilation of unconscious patients during surgery and sometimes in intensive care.

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