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Intraocular pressures after suxamethonium and endotracheal intubation
Author(s) -
BOWEN D.J.,
McGRAND J.C.,
HAMILTON A.G.
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
anaesthesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.839
H-Index - 117
eISSN - 1365-2044
pISSN - 0003-2409
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2044.1978.tb08388.x
Subject(s) - medicine , senior registrar , endotracheal intubation , ophthalmology , intubation , general surgery , anesthesia , family medicine
Intraocular pressures were recorded in two series of fifteen patients after the administration of suxamethonium and endotracheal intubation. One series received tubocurarine 0.05 mg/kg and the other gallamine 0.3 mg/kg 4 min before the suxamethonium. The pressures were compared with those in a control group of fifteen patients who received normal saline before the suxamethonium. An increase in intraocular pressure occurred in 80% of patients and was similar in all three groups.