Question

A surgical client is receiving a neuromuscular junction (nmj) blocker. the nurse knows that the client cannot move because the client's acetylcholine receptor sites have been stimulated and the drug is remaining in the receptor sites, preventing repolarization. what medication is this client receiving?

Answer 1

The patient is receiving succinylcholine or commercially called anectine.
Succinylcholine is a medication often used in the context of general anaesthesia and its main effect is general paralysis. The drug's mechanism of action includes the inhibition of the acetylcholine's action on skeletal muscles. This inhibition is caused by the binding of the drug on the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor and the depolarization of the muscle cell.