Which muscle relaxant increases intracranial pressure?
Correct Answer: Suxamethonium
Description: (C) Suxamethonium # Suxamethonium chloride (Succinylcholine, Sscoline, or colloquially as Suxa) is a medication widely used in emerger cy medicine and anesthesia to induce muscle relaxation, usually to make endotracheal intubation possible> Side effects:> Side effects include muscle pains, acute rhabdomyolysis with hyperkalemia, transient ocular hypertension and increased ICT, constipation and changes in cardiac rhythm including bradycardia, cardiac arrest, and ventricular dysrhythmias.> In patients with neuromuscular disease or burns, a single injection of suxamethonium can lead to massive release of potassium from skeletal muscles with cardiac arrest.
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