منابع مشابه
Muscle pains after intramuscular suxamethonium chloride.
The use of suxamethonium chloride by intramuscular injection as a short acting muscle relaxant for endotracheal intubation is described. The incidence and severity of postoperative muscle pains in this group of 94 patients is compared with the results of another group (of 112 patients) in which the drug was given intravenously. The incidence of pains was similar in the two groups (26.6 and 28.6...
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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 ...
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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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Two matched groups of patients with Hodgkin's disease undergoing a staging laparotomy received thiopentone, pancuronium bromide or suxamethonium 1.0 mg kg-1 (group 2) to facilitate tracheal intubation. There were no differences in the sites or degree of postoperative myalgia between the groups. It is concluded that efforts to reduce the frequency of suxamethonium muscle pains in patients having...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: BJA: British Journal of Anaesthesia
سال: 1955
ISSN: 0007-0912,1471-6771
DOI: 10.1093/bja/27.7.338