Malignant hyperthermia: Dantrolene sodium - A must have
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Dantrolene sodium and management of malignant hyperthermia.
Malignant hyperthermia (MH) is an inherited muscle disorder suffered by patients who undergo a stressful situation or acute trauma or who have been given certain anesthetic agents. 1,2 MH has been called the most common cause of anesthesiarelated death in North America, contributing a large percentage of the 15,000 to 20,000 of such deaths recorded annually.3 The 53% mortality rate of today com...
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Corresponding author: Bon-Sung Koo, M.D., Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Soonchunhyang University Bucheon Hospital, Soonchunhyang University College of Medicine, 170, Jomaru-ro, Wonmi-gu, Bucheon 420-767, Korea. Tel: 82-32-621-5330, Fax: 82-32-621-5322, E-mail: [email protected] This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non...
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عنوان ژورنال: Indian Journal of Anaesthesia
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0019-5049
DOI: 10.4103/0019-5049.96327