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Management of Accidental Succinylcholine Ingestion: Navigating Uncharted Waters
Accidental oral ingestion of intravenous drugs is rare and under-reported, which may lead to serious morbidity and worsen the outcome for the patient. Though oral ingestion of sedatives and opioid drugs is reported, literature regarding the ingestion of muscle relaxants and subsequent management is...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8933851/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35350533 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.22312 |
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author | Jain, Shikha Singh, Pooja Karna, Sunaina T Ahmad, Zainab |
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description | Accidental oral ingestion of intravenous drugs is rare and under-reported, which may lead to serious morbidity and worsen the outcome for the patient. Though oral ingestion of sedatives and opioid drugs is reported, literature regarding the ingestion of muscle relaxants and subsequent management is limited. We report an interesting case of oral intake of 10 ml (500 mg) of injection Succinylcholine, a depolarizing muscle relaxant, by a psychiatric patient awaiting electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) in the pre-procedure room. We hereby report the subsequent sequence of events along with the suggested recommendations to be followed in the case of such an eventuality. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first case report of oral ingestion of a depolarizing neuromuscular blocking drug and its subsequent consequences. |
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spelling | pubmed-89338512022-03-28 Management of Accidental Succinylcholine Ingestion: Navigating Uncharted Waters Jain, Shikha Singh, Pooja Karna, Sunaina T Ahmad, Zainab Cureus Anesthesiology Accidental oral ingestion of intravenous drugs is rare and under-reported, which may lead to serious morbidity and worsen the outcome for the patient. Though oral ingestion of sedatives and opioid drugs is reported, literature regarding the ingestion of muscle relaxants and subsequent management is limited. We report an interesting case of oral intake of 10 ml (500 mg) of injection Succinylcholine, a depolarizing muscle relaxant, by a psychiatric patient awaiting electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) in the pre-procedure room. We hereby report the subsequent sequence of events along with the suggested recommendations to be followed in the case of such an eventuality. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first case report of oral ingestion of a depolarizing neuromuscular blocking drug and its subsequent consequences. Cureus 2022-02-17 /pmc/articles/PMC8933851/ /pubmed/35350533 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.22312 Text en Copyright © 2022, Jain et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Anesthesiology Jain, Shikha Singh, Pooja Karna, Sunaina T Ahmad, Zainab Management of Accidental Succinylcholine Ingestion: Navigating Uncharted Waters |
title | Management of Accidental Succinylcholine Ingestion: Navigating Uncharted Waters |
title_full | Management of Accidental Succinylcholine Ingestion: Navigating Uncharted Waters |
title_fullStr | Management of Accidental Succinylcholine Ingestion: Navigating Uncharted Waters |
title_full_unstemmed | Management of Accidental Succinylcholine Ingestion: Navigating Uncharted Waters |
title_short | Management of Accidental Succinylcholine Ingestion: Navigating Uncharted Waters |
title_sort | management of accidental succinylcholine ingestion: navigating uncharted waters |
topic | Anesthesiology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8933851/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35350533 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.22312 |
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