HYPERPYREXIA FOLLOWING CURETTING.

Curiosities of Curetting

Procaine in malignant hyperpyrexia.

The caffeine contracture of normal human muscle, which has been used as a model for malignant hyperpyrexia, is greatly potentiated by halothane. Prior administration of procaine markedly reduces the halothane-potentiated caffeine contracture, and procaine given at the height of the contracture induces relaxation. Lignocaine, on the other hand, produces a variable response and sometimes increase...

Hyperpyrexia in Datura Poisoning

Three adult patients, two of whom were brothers and the third their uncle, were brought to my dispensary. They said that they had taken together some home-made sattu (flour of fried wheat and gram made into paste with sugar) in the morning, and since then were feeling very dizzy. They had come to the dispensary within one hour after their breakfast of sattu. Although no foul play was suspected,...

Rhabdomyolysis and malignant hyperpyrexia.

detected in any patient by this method. Fourteen patients had raised serum creatine kinase activity (up to 5000 IU/1, normal range < 170 lU/i) and raised serum aspartate transaminase activity (up to 150 IU/1, normal < 35 IU/1). In all cases enzyme activity fell after admission to hospital. Peak serum creatine kinase activity was not significantly related to weight, sex, level of consciousness, ...

Malignant hyperpyrexia: A dread complication

We are, indeed, fortunate in the Anesthesia Department at North Carolina Baptist Hospital to have an excellent supply of equipment. Yet, we are guilty, at times, of failing to take full advantage of it. A prime example is the temperature probe, a valuable aid in the diagnosis of malignant hyperpyrexia. In fact, it is so important that failure to monitor body temperature during anesthesia may ha...