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Delayed onset of malignant hyperthermia in desflurane anesthesia
Christian W Hoenemann1, Tobias B Halene-Holtgraeve, Michael Booke
1Department of Anesthesiology and Critical CareUniversitätsklinikum Münster, Germany. hoenemann@anit.uni-muester.de
Anesthesia and Analgesia
|December 31, 2002
Abstract
Implications:
Animal-experimental studies demonstrate desflurane's trigger effect for malignant hyperthermia (MH). In contrast to other anesthetics, the time interval from exposure to the occurrence of symptoms is much longer with desflurane. This case report focuses on MH induced by desflurane alone.