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The optimal succinylcholine dose for intubating emergency patients: retrospective comparative study

BACKGROUND: Succinylcholine remains the drug of choice for satisfactory rapid-sequence tracheal intubation. It is not clear from the literature why the 1 mg/kg dose of succinylcholine has been traditionally used. The effective dose (ED95) of succinylcholine is less than 0.3 mg/kg. The dose of 1 mg/k...

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Autores principales: Ezzat, Alaa, Fathi, Essam, Zarour, Ahmad, Singh, Rajvir, Abusaeda, M. Osama, Hussien, M. Magdy
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: CoAction Publishing 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3139274/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21772925
http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/ljm.v6i0.7041