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Can succinylcholine be abandoned?

D Ryan Cook1

  • 1Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Summary

Succinylcholine is rarely used in anesthesia due to side effects. Rapacuronium offers an alternative for tracheal intubation, but its role in rapid sequence induction, especially for patients with full stomachs, requires further study.

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