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Anaesthetic implications of rigid spine syndrome
B G Jorgensen1, M Laub, R H Knudsen
1Department of Anaesthesia, Center of Head and Orthopaedics and Respiratory Center East, Copenhagen University Hospital, Righospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Paediatric Anaesthesia
|July 20, 1999
Abstract:
The perioperative management of a 14-year-old girl, suffering from the muscular disorder rigid spine syndrome, is presented. The anaesthetic implications with regard to possible difficult intubation, cardiac involvement, malignant hyperthermia, neuromuscular blocking agents, and postoperative recovery are discussed.