Malignant Hyperthermia and Surgery

[menaniac]

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Sorry for posting here, but I think you guys might have more experience with this than the allo forum. I'm an incoming MS1, who is malignant hyperthermic. I am very interested in surgery, and am wondering if this will affect me in the OR. Do I have to worry about having a reaction to the anesthesia in the OR (I've seen recent studies that show there is a small, but significant ammount floating around in there), or is the limit so low that I don't have to worry about it? I've searched for similar posts (there are none I can find), and asked the surgeons I know the same question and haven't gotten any answers ("hmm..that's an interesting question" is the general consensus). I'm getting the feeling that since there aren't many MH people out there this is generally an unknown, but I thought that if anyone would know it would be those floating around here! Any thoughts? Thanks!😀

 

[Blade28]

I'd probably ask the folks over in the Anesthesia forum (they're much more familiar with malignant hyperthermia).

 

[Pilot Doc]

Cross post.

See http://gasforums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=427073