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Malignant Hyperthermia
How is it treated?
Originally, mortality was seventy to eighty per cent but this is now
significantly reduced to two to three per cent due to the improved
monitoring facilities in the operating theatre and the availability of
Dantrolene, the only specific treatment, enabling the reaction to be
detected much earlier and successfully treated.
The UK MH referral centre and National MH register is:
The MH Investigation Unit
Academic Department of Anaesthesia
Clinical Sciences Building
St James's University Hospital
Leeds LS9 7TF
Tel: 0113 2065274
07947 609601 Hotline
for medical emergencies only
Fax: 0113 2064140
Web: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/medicine/LeedsMH.html
There is also a European MH Group (EMHG) composed of twenty-three MH centres throughout Europe. For further information please contact the Secretary of the EMHG, Dr P J Halsall, at the St James University Hospital address, above.
How is it diagnosed?
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