Possible malignant hyperthermia during spinal anaesthesia with tetracaine [18]

Anaesthesia

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 200-201

  Sheu, C C ^a   Tsai, J R ^a   Hung, J Y ^a  

^a KAOHSIUNG MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATINE KINASE; DANTROLENE; DIAZEPAM; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; MIDAZOLAM; PROPOFOL; TETRACAINE;

ADULT; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BRADYCARDIA; CASE REPORT; COMA; CREATINE KINASE BLOOD LEVEL; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXTUBATION; HUMAN; HYPERURICEMIA; HYPOTENSION; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE BLOOD LEVEL; LETTER; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MALE; MALIGNANT HYPERTHERMIA; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; MUSCLE RIGIDITY; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PROSTATE SURGERY; RESUSCITATION; SEIZURE; SIDE EFFECT; SPINAL ANESTHESIA; TACHYPNEA; TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION; UNCONSCIOUSNESS;

ANESTHESIA, SPINAL; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; HUMANS; MALE; MALIGNANT HYPERTHERMIA; MIDDLE AGED; TETRACAINE;

EID: 33846193131     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: 13652044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.2007.04969.x     Document Type: Letter

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