Emergency Medicine Forum

To read the case, click on ”Read more –>” on bottom of this page. 1.  According to a study of anesthesia patients, after pre-oxygenation, oxygen de-saturation occurred in 11% of patients after 1 mg/kg of succinylcholine (during rapid sequence intubation) before the resumption of effective spontaneous ventilation.  Their conclusion was that the use of succinylcholine may not always prevent [...]

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