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IMPLICATIONS: Doses as large as 2.0 mg/kg of succinylcholine do not guarantee excellent intubating conditions within 60 s in 90% of patients. The calculated doses of succinylcholine (and their 95% confidence intervals) that are required to achieve excellent intubating conditions in 50% and 80% of patients at 60 s are 0.39 (0.29–0.51) mg/kg and 1.6 (1.2–2.0) mg/kg, respectively.
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