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To ensure a reasonably long-lasting local effect with minimal systemic action, a vasoconstrictor (epinephrine, less frequently norepinephrine or a vasopressin derivative;) is often co-administered in an attempt to confine the drug to its site of action.
By itself, the latter is enzymatically inactive; only after binding to a plasminogen molecule does the complex become effective in converting plasminogen to plasmin. Streptokinase is produced by streptococcal bacteria, which probably accounts for the frequent adverse reactions. Streptokinase antibodies may be present as a result of prior streptococcal infections.

 

In higher doses, ethanol and barbiturates also depress the thermoregulatory center (B1), thereby permitting cooling of the body to the point of death, given a sufficiently low ambient temperature (freezing to death in drunkenness). Pyrogens (e. g. , bacterial matter) elevate— probably through mediation by prostaglandins and interleukin- 1—the set point of the hypothalamic temperature controller.
It is often given at the start of anesthesia to facilitate intubation of the patient. As expected, cholinesterase inhibitors are unable to counteract the effect of succinylcholine. In the few patients with a genetic deficiency in pseudocholinesterase (= nonspecific cholinesterase), the succinylcholine effect is significantly prolonged.