1. How Much Dantrolene? A Case of Fulminant Malignant Hyperthermia
- Author
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Bell Ad and Cain Ag
- Subjects
Male ,Chemotherapy ,Adolescent ,Dose-Response Relationship, Drug ,business.industry ,Fulminant ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Malignant hyperthermia ,Anesthesia, General ,Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine ,medicine.disease ,Dantrolene ,Postoperative Complications ,Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine ,Anesthesia ,Total dose ,Humans ,Medicine ,Nasal Obstruction ,Malignant Hyperthermia ,Complication ,business ,Nasal Septum ,medicine.drug - Abstract
The basis of the successful management of acute malignant hyperthermia (MH) is early recognition and diagnosis. We present a case of fulminant MH, occurring in a patient in a rural base hospital, which required a total dose of 6 mg/kg of dantrolene before significant clinical improvement was seen
- Published
- 1989