A child during anesthesia with Halothane and succincyl coA develops severe stiffness of masseters. What is the most probable diagnosis?
Correct Answer: Malignant hypehermia
Description: Malignant hypehermia is a condition that triggers a severe reaction to ceain drugs used as pa of anesthesia for surgery. Without prompt treatment, the disease can be fatal. The genes that cause malignant hypehermia are inherited. In most cases, no signs or symptoms of the condition exist until you are exposed to anesthesia. Malignant hypehermia is a genetic(autosomal dominant) hypermetabolic muscle disease. Triggering agents include Inhaled general anesthetics Ether Halothane Methoxyflurane Enflurane Isoflurane Desflurane Sevoflurane Depolarizing muscle relaxants Succinylcholine
Category:
Anaesthesia
Get More
Subject Mock Tests
Practice with over 200,000 questions from various medical subjects and improve your knowledge.
Attempt a mock test nowMock Exam
Take an exam with 100 random questions selected from all subjects to test your knowledge.
Coming SoonGet More
Subject Mock Tests
Try practicing mock tests with over 200,000 questions from various medical subjects.
Attempt a mock test now