succinylcholine

How To Use succinylcholine In A Sentence

• In the review by Trollor and Sachdev, a muscle relaxant was used in 50% of the cases with succinylcholine being the most common.
• Tracheal intubation was performed after the administration of succinylcholine intravenously.
• In 1940, curare was introduced to moderate the vertebrae-cracking force of the convulsions, and succinylcholine was introduced in 1952.
• Light anesthesia is induced using a short-acting barbiturate, usually methohexital IV followed by succinylcholine IV for muscle relaxation.
• The patient is then closely observed for muscle fasciculations representing the first depolarization phase of succinylcholine activity. The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry
• Prior to the introduction in 1955 of succinylcholine muscle relaxation for ECT, many patients sustained spinal compression fractures during the tonic phase of the induced seizure, and pretreatment x-rays of the dorsolumbar spine were routinely obtained for medicolegal documentation. The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry
• Succinylcholine is used in intensive care wards, usually to assist the insertion of a tracheal tube. Times, Sunday Times
• The administration of succinylcholine results in transient and modest increases in intracranial pressure.
• Nonpolarizing neuromuscular blocking agents such as succinylcholine can cause fasiculations, which are vaguely convulsive, but that is why polarizing agents such as rocuronium are used to suppress fasiculations, which can interfere with tracheal intubation (i.e., inserting a breathing tube). Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
• Forensic tests indicate he was first injected in the thigh with a fast-acting muscle relaxant called succinylcholine, which is said to be hard to detect. The Seattle Times