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Ketamine induced hyperthermia: Postictal or malignant?

Anesthesiology (1977) 47(4) 390-391
DOI: 10.1097/00000542-197710000-00016
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Abstract

Ketamine, administered to an epileptic patient with a myopathy, produced grand mal convulsions. In the postictal phase the axillary temperature rose more than 3 C, mimicking the onset of malignant hyperthermia.

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Lees, D. E., & Macnamara, T. (1977). Ketamine induced hyperthermia: Postictal or malignant? Anesthesiology, 47(4), 390–391. https://doi.org/10.1097/00000542-197710000-00016

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