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Nigerian Journal of Medicine, 2019 BACKGROUND: Succinylcholine at 1.0 mg/kg usually provides acceptable tracheal intubation condition within 60 seconds. The return of respiratory function following this dose is not quick enough to prevent oxyhaemoglobin desaturation when ventilation is ...
L A I Angashang +2 more
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Journal of Emergencies, Trauma and Shock, 2020 Background: Succinylcholine is a depolarizing agent used for rapid sequence intubation (RIS). While the agent is the most widely used drug of choice in most emergency departments (EDs), the adverse effect profile is lengthy compared to nondepolarizing ...
Jason W Wilson +2 more
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Management of hyperkalemia in the acutely ill patient. [PDF]
, 2019 PURPOSE:To review the mechanisms of action, expected efficacy and side effects of strategies to control hyperkalemia in acutely ill patients. METHODS:We searched MEDLINE and EMBASE for relevant papers published in English between Jan 1, 1938, and July 1,
Dépret, François +5 more
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Journal of Advanced Pharmaceutical Technology & Research, 2017 Fasciculation is a minor adverse effect of succinylcholine and may be an unpleasant experience for patient. The aim of this study was to compare the use of atracurium and methocarbamol to decrease the occurrence and severity of succinylcholine-induced ...
Gholamreza Shabanian +3 more
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Clinical predictors of seizure threshold in electroconvulsive therapy: a prospective study [PDF]
, 2012 At the start and during the course of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), estimation of the seizure threshold (ST) is useful in weighing the expected effectiveness against the risks of side effects. Therefore, this study explores clinical factors predicting
Bastiaan Verwey +4 more
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Perioperative and anesthetic deaths: toxicological and medico legal aspects [PDF]
, 2019 Background: Anesthesia has become safer during decades, though there is still a preventable mortality; the complexity of medical and surgical interventions, increasingly older and sicker patients, has created a host of new hazards in anesthesiology.
Argo A. +5 more
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A comparison of serum potassium level between high dose and low dose of Succinylcholine
Journal of College of Medical Sciences-Nepal, 2014 Aims: Succinylcholine is a depolarizing type of neuromuscular blocking drug. Aim of this study is to evaluate and compare serum potassium level with upper dose limit of succinylcholine (1.5mg/kg), which is used normally in anesthetic practice with ...
RK Yadav, PC Majhi, D Tiwari
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Trismus during tracheal extubation as a complication of general anaesthesia – A case report
Open Medicine, 2022 Tracheal extubation is a risky phase of anaesthesia. Most complications that occur when an endotracheal tube is removed are of minor nature, but those that require critical action can end in serious complications or even death.
Radkowski Paweł +2 more
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A retrospective description of anesthetic medication dosing in overweight and obese children [PDF]
, 2014 Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/108075/1/pan12396 ...
Baldock, Andrew +6 more
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Intubating conditions following rapid sequence induction with three doses of succinylcholine
Indian Journal of Anaesthesia, 2012 Background: The aim of this prospective, randomized, double-blind study was to compare tracheal intubating conditions and the duration of apnoea following administration of 0.4, 0.6 and 1.0 mg/kg of succinylcholine during simulated rapid sequence ...
Smita Prakash +4 more
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