The effect of thiopentone on severity and duration of succinylcholine- induced fasciculation

Clinical Neuropharmacology

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 94-96

  Shoroghi, Mehrdad ^a   Zahedi, Hamid ^a   Farahbakhsh, Farshid ^b   Sheikhvatan, Mehrdad ^a   Abbasi, Ali ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b Rafsanjan University   (Iran)

^c TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Fasciculation; Ocular surgery; Succinylcholine; Thiopentone

Indexed keywords

SUXAMETHONIUM; THIOPENTAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOSAGE SCHEDULE COMPARISON; DRUG EFFICACY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; EYE SURGERY; FASCICULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREMEDICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; FASCICULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPNOTICS AND SEDATIVES; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SUCCINYLCHOLINE; THIOPENTAL; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67749122394     PISSN: 03625664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WNF.0b013e31816a1caf     Document Type: Article

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