What is Malignant Hyperthermia?
Recently a young woman in Singapore, unfortunately, died after dental surgery due to a rare genetic complication while under general anesthesia. The disorder which caused her fatality is called malignant hyperthermia or malignant hyperpyrexia. What is malignant hyperthermia? A reaction to certain general anesthetics causes malignant hyperthermia (MH). Specifically inhaled anesthetics, including desflurane, sevoflurane, isoflurane, methoxyflurane […]