Increased sensitivity to a nondepolarizing muscle relaxant in a patient with acquired neuromyotonia

2009 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 139-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Greg Ginsburg ◽  
Ryan Forde ◽  
Jeevendra A.J. Martyn ◽  
Matthias Eikermann
1993 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 50
Author(s):  
Jin Seung Lee ◽  
Jang Weon Lee ◽  
Si Young Ok ◽  
Yoo Jae Kim ◽  
Wook Park ◽  
...  

2002 ◽  
Vol 14 (7) ◽  
pp. 500-504
Author(s):  
Xiaoguang Chen ◽  
Jun Tang ◽  
Paul F White ◽  
Ronald H Wender ◽  
Alexander Sloninsky ◽  
...  

1986 ◽  
Vol 65 (3) ◽  
pp. 326-327 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arthur Schwartz ◽  
Richard Matteo ◽  
Eugene Ornstein ◽  
Peter Silverberg

1989 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 320-324 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. J. Anderson ◽  
T. C. K. Brown

A review of the anaesthetic management of children with congenital myotonic dystrophy anaesthetised at the Royal Children's Hospital over the past ten years is presented. Seven children underwent a total of fourteen anaesthetics. Anaesthetic considerations must include the degree of muscle weakness and hypotonia altering muscle relaxant requirements, aspiration risk due to palatopharyngeal dysfunction, and cardiomyopathy. Succinylcholine caused muscle contracture in a patient without clinical myotonia. This drug should be avoided. Although a low threshold to institute postoperative respiratory support must exist when treating neonates and infants, the older children did not clinically exhibit increased sensitivity to respiratory depressant drugs.


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