• Anaesthesia · Mar 1993

    Case Reports

    A very small dose of suxamethonium relieves laryngospasm.

    • D C Chung and S J Rowbottom.
    • Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, Hong Kong.
    • Anaesthesia. 1993 Mar 1;48(3):229-30.

    AbstractIntravenous suxamethonium, in a dose as small as 0.1 mg.kg-1, has been found to be reliable in the treatment of laryngeal spasm. Three episodes of vocal cord spasm observed during direct laryngoscopy were relieved by this dose of suxamethonium.

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