We Do Not Have Evidence that Avoidance of Succinylcholine in Patients Receiving Statins Will Improve Outcomes
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We do not have evidence that avoidance of succinylcholine in patients receiving statins will improve outcomes.
statin and succinylcholine, simply because they have less muscle mass. If this clinical effect in fact existed, we would been observing a pandemic of perioperative renal failure caused by myoglobinuria during the past several years, since statins are prescribed frequently for the elderly population undergoing surgical procedures in the United States, and succinylcholine has not been contra-indi...
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عنوان ژورنال: Anesthesiology
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0003-3022
DOI: 10.1097/aln.0b013e3182410e7f