Concerns regarding stability had led the pharmacy staff to prepare three syringes each of succinylcholine (10 mL of 20 mg/mL) and ePHEDrine (10 mL of 5 mg/mL) every other day to stock in the labor ...

Since the 1950s, cardiac arrest has been observed in burn patients receiving succinylcholine. A decade later, hyperkalemia was determined to be the cause of the cardiac arrest in these patients.