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Postoperative hyperthermia in a patient having cortical brain resection
G R Haynes1, J Gottesman, B H Dorman
1Department of Anesthesiology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston 29425.
Southern Medical Journal
|March 1, 1994
Abstract:
When a profound fever occurs in a surgical patient, clinicians usually start thinking about the malignant hyperthermia syndrome. Simple consideration of the clinical situation, the patient's medical history, and a few rapid laboratory assessments are enough to direct appropriate treatment.