Simulation of Cerebral Death by Succinylcholine Sensitivity
- 1 May 1974
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of Neurology
- Vol. 30 (5) , 409-411
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archneur.1974.00490350067012
Abstract
A patient who received succinylcholine chloride developed the signs of cerebral death as a result of dysfunction of succinylcholine metabolism by the enzyme, pseudocholinesterase. However, the electroencephalogram was only moderately abnormal and the patient recovered fully in eight hours, emphasizing the importance of the EEG in the evaluation of cerebral death.This publication has 11 references indexed in Scilit:
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