New muscle relaxants for anesthesia during 1-day surgery

In the last few years, the growth of 1-day surgery and the introduction of new techniques have increased the need for general anesthesia with endotracheal intubation and mechanical ventilation. The end point of 1-day anesthesia is early patient discharge home. Therefore, new muscle relaxant agents have been propounded to anesthetists to achieve this. In this paper, we analyze pharmacological and clinical characteristics of available newer muscle relaxants and evaluate their possible use in 1-day surgery.