Postoperative hyperthermia in a patient having cortical brain resection.
When a profound fever occurs in a surgical patient, clinicians usually start thinking about the malignant hyperthermia syndrome. Simple consideration of the clinical situation, the patient's medical history, and a few rapid laboratory assessments are enough to direct appropriate treatment.
Haynes
G R
GR
Department of Anesthesiology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston 29425.
Gottesman
J
J
Dorman
B H
BH
Brahen
N H
NH
D000293:Adolescent; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000601:surgery*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008305:Malignant Hyperthermia / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000628:therapy; D009459:Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome / Q000175:diagnosis; D015831:Osteochondroma / Q000601:surgery; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D013226:Status Epilepticus / Q000150:complications