Malignant hyperthermia is a condition that’s often triggered by certain anesthesia drugs and can be life threatening. The condition impacts an estimated 1 in every 100,000 adult surgeries and 1 in ...

Malignant hyperthermia is a potential side effect or complication that may arise in patients who have received general anesthesia. This adverse event typically occurs during surgery and other invasive ...

“Uncle Joe woke up from minor surgery packed in ice.” That’s more than interesting family gossip. It’s an ominous clue that Joe’s relatives are at risk for a rare, inherited condition that can make ...

Early in the course of the development of these agents, haloperidol was found to cause not only hypokinetic and hyperkinetic motor disorders but also a potentially fatal syndrome of muscle rigidity ...

CHICAGO - Maintaining a stocked cart, with a full supply of the life-saving drug dantrolene, to treat malignant hyperthermia, a rare but potentially fatal adverse reaction to general anesthesia, may ...

Correspondence to: Professor P M Hopkins Malignant Hyperthermia Investigation Unit, Academic Unit of Anaesthesia, St James’s University Hospital, Leeds LS9 7TF, UK;p.m.hopkins{at}leeds.ac.uk If you ...

Malignant hyperthermia is when you have an extremely high body temperature caused by certain chemicals or other triggers. If left untreated, malignant hyperthermia can cause death. Hyperthermia is a ...