Forensic tests indicate he was first injected in the thigh with a fast-acting muscle relaxant called succinylcholine, which is said to be hard to detect.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fort Mill Times | FortMillTime.com - HOMEPAGE] Reference

The drug found in al-Mabhouh's bloodstream is known as succinylcholine and is frequently used by doctors to administer a breathing tube or anesthesia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest Headlines - ABC 7 News]

1967: Researchers paralyze 64 prison inmates in California with a neuromuscular compound called succinylcholine, which produces suppressed breathing that feels similar to drowning.    From Wordnik.com.  [WHAT REALLY HAPPENED] Reference

The succinylcholine will wear off in another minute or two.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harvest] Reference

Right, but succinylcholine has a different chemical mechanism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harvest] Reference

He had allegedly used succinylcholine to render her powerless.    From Wordnik.com.  [Smoke, Mirrors, and Murder] Reference

Reserpine … quinidine … succinylcholine … he repeated as he wrote in his notebook.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dreaming of the Bones] Reference

Then a Dubai forensic lab retesting his body fluids discovered traces of succinylcholine.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Questions About the Dubai Assassination] Reference

Tarasoff glanced sideways at the instrument tray, and he spotted the syringe of succinylcholine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harvest] Reference

Subsequent succinylcholine dosage will be modified according to the strength of the first seizure.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry] Reference

Although the victims of succinylcholine poisoning cannot move even to blink an eye, they are fully conscious.    From Wordnik.com.  [Smoke, Mirrors, and Murder] Reference

This technique prevents the succinylcholine from entering the muscles of that arm, so that they remain polarized.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry] Reference

Sufficient succinylcholine was used to prevent any motor activity during the seizures, which might have disrupted the abdominal wound.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry] Reference

The patient is then closely observed for muscle fasciculations representing the first depolarization phase of succinylcholine activity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry] Reference

Prolonged apnea is a rare complication of ECT muscle relaxation that results from a relative deficiency of pseudocholinesterase, the enzyme that degrades succinylcholine.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry] Reference

Almost never is additional succinylcholine needed in this event, as an adequate degree of muscle relaxation for ECT continues for several minutes after the peak effect has been reached.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry] Reference

In most patients, the seizure is easily recognized, despite the effects of succinylcholine, which rarely obscures entirely the stereotyped tonic-clonic progression of the induced seizure.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry] Reference

A simple and effective technique for monitoring seizure activity is to inflate a blood pressure cuff over one arm to exceed the systolic blood pressure before the succinylcholine is given.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry] Reference

The most likely drug that would have quickly paralyzed her and been difficult to detect on autopsy because small amounts are normally present in the human brain would have been succinylcholine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Smoke, Mirrors, and Murder] Reference

She had a minimum of subcutaneous fat and her abdominal muscles were flat and tight—so tight that their assistant, standing at the head of the table, had to infuse more succinylcholine to relax them for easier retraction.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harvest] Reference

Separately, Dubai police said Sunday that forensic results showed the drug succinylcholine in Mr. Mabhouh's bloodstream at the time of his death, suggesting he had been incapacitated by the muscle relaxant before being suffocated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Dubai Suspects Traveled to U.S.] Reference

IIRC the half life of succinylcholine is very short, making it difficult to find at autopsy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest Articles] Reference

Augustine died in 2006 after being injected with succinylcholine, a paralyzing drug used in hospital emergency rooms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lahontan Valley News - Top Stories] Reference

On Sunday, Khalfan's deputy, Khamis Mattar al-Mazeina, said in a statement that the killers had used the drug succinylcholine "to sedate Mabhuh before they suffocated him.".    From Wordnik.com.  [WHAT REALLY HAPPENED] Reference

Patients over time, the product labeling is modi fi ed in order with abnormal pscudocholinesterase levels have to convey up to date information. prolonged apnea after receiving succinylcholine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

Forensic results indicate the muscle-relaxing drug succinylcholine was in Mabhouh's bloodstream when he died, possibly indicating he was chemically incapacitated before being suffocated, Dubai police said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest News - UPI.com] Reference

"The killers used the drug succinylcholine to sedate (Mahmud) al-Mabhuh before they suffocated him," the statement quoted Major General Khamis Mattar al-Mazeina, deputy commander of Dubai police, as saying.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest News - Yahoo!7 News] Reference

They found traces of succinylcholine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harvest] Reference

I need succinylcholine! ".    From Wordnik.com.  [WhiteCoat Rants] Reference

When he ceases counting, 40-50 mg of succinylcholine 0.5-1 mg/kg is injected in the same manner as the methohexital.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry] Reference