ELECTROMYOGRAPHIC RESPONSES TO SMALL DOSES OF SUXAMETHONIUM IN CHILDREN AFTER BURNS
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- 1 August 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Elsevier in British Journal of Anaesthesia
- Vol. 59 (8) , 1017-1021
- https://doi.org/10.1093/bja/59.8.1017
Abstract
Integrated electromyographic studies in burned patients, and in normal controls, during the administration of small doses of suxamethonium (0.7 or 0.2 mg kg1) have shown that the level of paralysis and the duration of paralysis are significantly increased in burn patients and that the effect is greater with larger burns. Repeatedstudies on patients using these small doses have shown that patients with burns pass through a phase of extreme sensitivity to the effects of suxamethonium, usually sometime between 4 and 12 days after the burn.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: