A case of abortive malignant hyperthermia during funnel chest surgery
Komatsu, H.; Enzan, K.; Suzuki, M.
Masui. Japanese Journal of Anesthesiology 42(7): 1053-1055
1993
ISSN/ISBN: 0021-4892 PMID: 8350473 Document Number: 418954
We experienced a case of abortive malignant hyperthermia during funnel chest surgery. Although a 5-year-old boy had muscle rigidity after the intravenous injection of succinylcholine chloride, the tracheal intubation was easy. The boy had high body temperature, metabolic acidosis, hyperkalemia and myoglobinuria during nitrous oxide-oxygen-sevoflurane anesthesia. We immediately came to the diagnosis of abortive malignant hyperthermia, gave intravenous injection of dantrolene sodium and started body surface cooling. Postoperative course was uneventful. It is necessary to pay a particular attention to possible malignant hyperthermia in patients with funnel chest surgery.