Aug 13
Over the past several months, since our April scientific conference, I have been thinking about the question “How should we define MH”? Sounds like a pretty straightforward question, but in reality it is quite complex.
Jul 1
MHAUS and the Ambulatory Surgery Foundation (ASF) Work Together to Improve Patient Safety
No Comments »If you have ever played the game of Telephone, you know how messages can get garbled and misstated when transmitted from one person to another. It is a fun game because the end message often is just the opposite of the initial message. Well, in the health care field, the game of telephone takes place every day in many ways.
Jun 7
July 2010 will mark the 50th anniversary of a publication that identified an inherited condition that would eventually be named Malignant Hyperthermia Syndrome.
Apr 22
In March of 2010 we carried out an MH drill at my institution. It was an important exercise and we learned several important lessons.
Mar 19
Over the past many years since MH was first described, a lot has been learned about both the clinical presentations as well as the underlying problems that cause malignant hyperthermia. Of course there is much more to learn but often as new information is accumulated those ideas or clinical recommendations that were based on concepts that have been disproved remain. In this blog I will describe ten myths related to MH that hotline consultants still hear either from callers or at national meetings
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