Clinical presentation, treatment, and complications of malignant hyperthermia in North America from 1987 to 2006

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 110, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 498-507

  Larach, Marilyn Green ^a   Gronert, Gerald A ^b   Allen, Gregory C ^c   Brandom, Barbara W ^d   Lehman, Erik B ^a  

^a PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Olympia Anesthesia Associates   (United States)

^d CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; ANESTHETIC AGENT; ATROPINE; BICARBONATE; BRETYLIUM; CALCIUM; DANTROLENE; DESFLURANE; DOPAMINE; ENFLURANE; FUROSEMIDE; GLUCOSE; HALOTHANE; HYPERTENSIVE FACTOR; INFUSION FLUID; INSULIN; ISOFLURANE; LIDOCAINE; MANNITOL; NORADRENALIN; PHENYLEPHRINE; PROCAINAMIDE; SEVOFLURANE; SUXAMETHONIUM; CENTRAL MUSCLE RELAXANT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANADA; CHILD; COMA; COOLING; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DEATH; DEFIBRILLATION; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; DRUG USE; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HEART ARREST; HEART DISEASE; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; HYPERCAPNIA; KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; LUNG EDEMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT HYPERTHERMIA; MASSETER MUSCLE; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; MORBIDITY; MUSCLE DISEASE; MUSCLE SPASM; MYALGIA; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; NORTH AMERICA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANK SUM TEST; RATING SCALE; RESPIRATORY ACIDOSIS; RESUSCITATION; RISK; SCHOOL CHILD; SINUS TACHYCARDIA; SKIN TEMPERATURE; SURVIVAL; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; UNITED STATES; INFANT; MIDDLE AGED;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANESTHETICS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DANTROLENE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MALIGNANT HYPERTHERMIA; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE RELAXANTS, CENTRAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 76249106192     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0b013e3181c6b9b2     Document Type: Review

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