Extreme variability in succinylcholine dose for muscle relaxation in electroconvulsive therapy.

CONCLUSIONS: In those patients who required an adjustment of 2 SD either above or below the mean dose of succinylcholine (29 patients, 5.8%), adequate neuromuscular blockade was only achieved with either an increased dose of up to 2.10 mg/kg or a decreased dose as low as 0.29 mg/kg.
PMID: 29504412 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Australasian Psychiatry - March 1, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Bryson EO, Kellner CH, Li EH, Aloysi AS, Majeske M Tags: Australas Psychiatry Source Type: research