Ruksana Samad.
Muscle pain after Succinylcholine injection & its management.
J Surg Pak Jan ;8(3):19-22.

The purpose of this study was to assess the percentage of patients experiencing postsuccinylcholine pain and outcome of the management. It was a comparative study conducted in the Department of Anesthesiology of post Graduate Lady Reading Hospital, Peshawar from September 1996 to February 1997. Eighty ASA 1 & 11 adults undergoing tonsillectomy were studied for the effects of pre operative administration of pancuronium bromide on succinylcholine induced myalgia. Patients were randomly divided into two groups, one group received succinylcholine as a muscle relaxant, while the other group received pancuronium bromide as a pretreatment agent 3 minute before succinyl. Muscle fasciculations, intubation conditions and post-operative myalgia were graded numerically. Post-operative myalgia in the group treated with pancuronium bromide was significantly less (<0.05) than in the control group.

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