Suxamethonium chloride Panpharma
This medicine helps relax your muscles during surgery and makes it easier to insert a breathing tube.
Form
injektio-/infuusioneste, liuos
Strength
50 mg/ml
Active Ingredient
Suxamethonium chloride dihydrate
Manufacturer
PANPHARMA
How to Use
Dosage
Your doctor or nurse will give you the right dose. For adults, it's usually 1 mg per kg of body weight. For children aged 1-12 years, it's 1-2 mg per kg, and for infants under 1 year, it's 2 mg per kg.
Method
This medicine is given as an injection into a vein (intravenously) by a doctor or nurse. A breathing machine will help you breathe.
Important
The total dose given should not be more than 500 mg per hour.
Possible Side Effects
COMMON
- •Stomach cramps, pain, nausea, or a feeling of fullness.
- •Visible muscle twitching under the skin.
- •Muscle pain after surgery.
- •Increased pressure in the eye, which may cause headache or blurred vision.
- •Skin redness.
- •Rash.
- •High potassium levels in the blood.
- •Fast or slow heartbeat.
- •Protein in blood or urine due to muscle damage.
- •Muscle damage, causing sore, tender, stiff, or weak muscles. Your urine may also look dark, red, or brownish.
RARE
- •Sudden, severe allergic reaction with symptoms like shortness of breath, wheezing, swelling of eyelids, face, lips, tongue, or other body parts, rash, itching, hives, or fainting.
- •Unusual heart rhythm.
- •Heart problems, including changes in heart rate or heart stopping.
- •Difficulty breathing or temporary stop in breathing.
- •Difficulty opening the mouth.
- •High body temperature.
- •Too much saliva.
- •High or low blood pressure.
Important Warnings
- Do not take if you are allergic to suxamethonium or any other ingredients in this medicine.
- Tell your doctor if you or a family member has had a severe reaction to anesthesia, like very high body temperature (malignant hyperthermia).
- Tell your doctor if you have unusually low activity of an enzyme called cholinesterase in your body.
- Tell your doctor if you have unusually high potassium levels in your blood (hyperkalemia).
- Tell your doctor if you have muscle weakness and muscle wasting (Duchenne muscular dystrophy), or if you or your family have a disease that causes muscle weakness (congenital myotonia or myotonic dystrophy).
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- Tell your doctor if you have ever had an allergic reaction to a muscle relaxant during surgery.
- Tell your doctor if you have severe liver or kidney problems.
- Tell your doctor if you have heart problems, including a heart attack, heart disease, or an irregular heartbeat.
- Tell your doctor if you have glaucoma (increased eye pressure) or a recent eye injury.