How To Use Succinylcholine In A Sentence
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In the review by Trollor and Sachdev, a muscle relaxant was used in 50% of the cases with succinylcholine being the most common.
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Tracheal intubation was performed after the administration of succinylcholine intravenously.
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In 1940, curare was introduced to moderate the vertebrae-cracking force of the convulsions, and succinylcholine was introduced in 1952.
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Light anesthesia is induced using a short-acting barbiturate, usually methohexital IV followed by succinylcholine IV for muscle relaxation.
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The patient is then closely observed for muscle fasciculations representing the first depolarization phase of succinylcholine activity.
The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry
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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
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Succinylcholine is used in intensive care wards, usually to assist the insertion of a tracheal tube.
Times, Sunday Times
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The administration of succinylcholine results in transient and modest increases in intracranial pressure.
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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]
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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
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1967: Researchers paralyze 64 prison inmates in California with a neuromuscular compound called succinylcholine, which produces suppressed breathing that feels similar to drowning.
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
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This ‘crash induction’ consists of preoxygenation and rapid administration of an IV induction agent, followed by administration of a full paralyzing dose of a rapid-acting muscle relaxant, most commonly succinylcholine.
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In 1940, curare was introduced to moderate the vertebrae-cracking force of the convulsions, and succinylcholine was introduced in 1952.
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The pharmacists' survey showed the biggest shortage in 2010 involved the drug succinylcholine, used in procedures to insert a tube into patients' airways to help them breathe.
Most Hospitals Face Drug Shortages
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The drug found in al-Mabhouh's bloodstream is known as succinylcholine and is frequently used by doctors to administer a breathing tube or anesthesia.
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