succinylcholine

IPA: sʌksʌnʌɫkˈoʊɫin

(pharmacology) US and UK form of suxamethonium. [(pharmacology) Synonym of suxamethonium chloride.]

Examples of "succinylcholine" in Sentences

My pharm book has it listed as Succinylcholine.
I agree with you on that succinylcholine, it is better to use INN.
Perhaps some countries such as Canada are still using succinylcholine.
Other drugs in use are tubocurarine chloride and succinylcholine chloride.
Succinylcholine, a neuromuscular blocking agent, is also a trigger for MH.
This page introduces total confusion between succinylcholine and its chloride.
The succinylcholine is delivered through a hypodermic needle disguised as a pen.
The drug found in al-Mabhouh's bloodstream is known as succinylcholine and is frequently used by doctors to administer a breathing tube or anesthesia.
Forensic tests indicate he was first injected in the thigh with a fast-acting muscle relaxant called succinylcholine, which is said to be hard to detect.
The pharmacists' survey showed the biggest shortage in 2010 involved the drug succinylcholine, used in procedures to insert a tube into patients' airways to help them breathe.
1967: Researchers paralyze 64 prison inmates in California with a neuromuscular compound called succinylcholine, which produces suppressed breathing that feels similar to drowning.
Nonpolarizing neuromuscular blocking agents such as succinylcholine can cause fasiculations, which are vaguely convulsive, but that is why polarizing agents such as rocuronium are used to suppress fasiculations, which can interfere with tracheal intubation (i.e., inserting a breathing tube).