• Acta Anaesthesiol Scand · Nov 1999

    Case Reports

    Nitroglycerin relieves laryngospasm.

    • A N Sibai and I Yamout.
    • Department of Anesthesiology, American University of Beirut-Medical Center, Lebanon.
    • Acta Anaesthesiol Scand. 1999 Nov 1;43(10):1081-3.

    AbstractTwo young healthy non-asthmatic non-smoking patients developed partial laryngospasm directly post-anaesthesia extubation after routine varicocelectomy and perianal abscess drainage operations under general anaesthesia. Nitroglycerin was administered intravenously in a dose of 4 microg/kg for both cases. The laryngospasm was completely relieved within a minute of nitroglycerin administration in both cases and the relief was maintained thereafter. The two cases suggest that nitroglycerin can be effective in the treatment of post-extubation partial laryngospasm in ASA (class I) patients.

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