منابع مشابه
Suxamethonium spasm. A differential diagnostic conundrum.
Spasm of muscle in association with suxamethonium is not uncommon. As an accepted early sign of malignant hyperpyrexia (MH), patients have been referred for MH screening who have shown only this abnormality. Case histories of 277 probands have been analysed and grouped according to final diagnosis, depending on results of muscle biopsy and in vitro screening. When muscle spasm is induced with s...
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The myotonic response of the masseter muscles following various doses of suxamethonium was measured using a unique myotonometer in 50 apparently healthy patients, the majority of whom showed a myotonic response which lasted less than 100 s. A maximum increase in masseter tone was found to be greater than 1 kg in five patients, and 12 patients developed a maximum tone of greater than 500 g. An i...
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No drugs in anaesthesia are more problematic than suxamethonium. Yet, no drugs have survived as suxamethonium does in spite of crisis after crisis, and attempt after attempt at its replacement. For decades, suxamethonium has taught us neuromuscular pharmacology and provided us with an encyclopaedia of side effects, while benefiting millions and millions of our anaesthetised patients. With the a...
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Sir,—I read with interest the paper by Kahraman and colleagues on the effect of i.m. diclofenac on suxamethonium-induced myalgia [1]. Diclofenac, administered i.m. to conscious patients, is painful and has a tendency to cause sterile abscesses. Its use to ameliorate suxamethonium myalgia could be a case of a "remedy worse than the disease". Pretreatments have been tried previously but all have ...
متن کاملHexafluorenium extension of suxamethonium block.
Clinical trials of the effectiveness of hexafluorenium (Mylaxen), as an extender of suxamethonium block, have been conducted in 645 administrations of halothane. No serious complications which could be attributed to the drug were encountered. Histamine release after the administration of hexofluorenium was not observed. In view of the extreme efficacy and the apparent safety of the method descr...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Anaesthesia
سال: 1984
ISSN: 0007-0912
DOI: 10.1093/bja/56.4.381