[Cesarean-section narcosis using Tricuran (Gallamine as a long-lasting muscle relaxans before delivery of the infant].

The use of long term non-depolarizing muscle relaxants facilitates the carrying out of anaesthesia at caesarean section. We compared the Apgar-score of two groups of 20 newborns after caesarean section, whose mothers got only succinylcholine or succinylcholine and gallamine before delivery by a hexobarbiturate - nitrous oxide - oxygen anaesthesia. The Apgar-score was practically identical in both groups. 70% of infants of the succinylcholine group and 75% of infants of the gallamine group showed an Apgar-score between 7 and 10 after 1 minute. A later decrease was noticed in no case. The use of gallamine is without danger for the newborn.