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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.

Referral centre

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 2065274/0
Tel: 07947 609601 Hotline for medical emergencies only
Fax: 0113 2064140

There is also a European MH Group (EMHG) composed of twenty-three MH centres throughout Europe.
Web: http://www.emhg.org

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Medical text written October 2000 by Dr J Halsall. Last updated December 2008 by Dr J Halsall, Honorary Research Fellow (Anaesthetics) and Associate Specialist in Anaesthesia, MH Investigation Unit, Clinical Sciences Building, St James's University Hospital, Leeds, UK.

 

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