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Patients are poikilothermic. Ensure environmental temperature near 37degrees if patient exposed. Improves over a few months after injury.
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Anaesthesia is still required despite sensory deficits. Reflexes intact, and the patient is at risk of autonomic dysreflexia.
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Nov 28, 2011
Quadraplegic patients use abdominal muscles to breath, and chest falls in on inspiration. This can be mistaken for bilateral flail chest.
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Remifentanil may cause severe bradycardia due to the patients unopposed parasympathetic tone. Excercise caution or consider avoiding
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At risk of hyperkalemia with suxamethonium from proliferated extrajunctional neuromuscular junction NMJ receptors 48hrs after the time of injury
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