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Suxamethonium chloride

What the body does with Suxamethonium chloride, from the dose to the exit, as its Wikipedia drug infobox records it.

Quoted from the Wikipedia infobox, not yet written up by hand. The order is the usual order of events, not a measured schedule.

Suxamethonium chloridetakenExitKidney (10%)
  1. 0 → onsetdose

    Onset

    30–60 sec (IV), 2–3 min (IM) 1

  2. doseabsorbed

    Bioavailability

    NA 1

  3. hoursbreakdown

    Metabolism

    By pseudocholinesterase, to succinylmonocholine and choline 1

  4. durationeffects

    Duration of action

    < 10 min (IV), 10–30 min (IM) 1

  5. exitleaves the body

    Excretion

    Kidney (10%) 1

Source

  1. Wikipedia, Suxamethonium chloride, drug infobox (revision 1368852794), CC BY-SA 4.0. Values quoted as they appear, with wiki markup removed.

Half-lives vary between people, doses and routes. This page explains what the body does with a drug. It is not dosing advice.