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British Journal of Anaesthesia, 1979, Vol. 51, No. 5 447-451
© 1979 The Board of Management and Trustees of the British Journal of Anaesthesia

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PREVENTION OF SUXAMETHONIUM-INDUCED CHANGES IN SERUM POTASSIUM CONCENTRATION BY HEXAFLUORENIUM

Is their combined use justified?

P. A. RADNAY, M.D., R. P. BADOLA, M.B., B.S., F.F.A.R.C.S., A. DALSANIA, M.D., E. I. EL-GAWEET, M.D. and D. DUNCALF, M.B., F.F.A.R.C.S.

Departments of Anesthesiology, Montefiore Hospital and Medical Center and Albert Einstein College of Medicine 111 East 210th Street, Bronx, New York 10467, U.S.A.

Sixty patients, none of whom was suffering from renal failure, received neurolept anaesthesia. They were divided into six groups of 10 patients each. Groups I and IV, II and V, and III and VI were given suxamethonium 0.2, 0.6 and 1.0 mg kg–1 respectively. Groups IV–VI were pretreated with hexafluorenium 0.3 mg kg"1. The serum potassium concentration decreased significantly after the induction of anaesthesia and also following the administration of hexafluorenium. Neither suxamethonium 0.2 mg nor 0.6 mg kg"1 with or without hexafluorenium restored the potassium concentration to the control value. Suxamethonium 1.0 mg kg–1 alone caused the serum potassium to increase to values greater than control; hexafluorenium attenuated this effect. The combination of hexafluorenium and suxamethonium may be of benefit in patients who are anephric or are in chronic renal failure.


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