INTRODUCTION. One recent study showed that the longer the duration of propofol anesthesia without NMB, the more profound the peak effect of a muscle relaxant. (1) The focus of this study is the determination of the mivacurium potency at the adductor pollicis muscle (AP) after 5 or 20 min of total intravenous (TIVA) propofol anesthesia.
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