USE OF MANDATORY MINUTE VOLUME VENTILATION IN THE PERIOPERATIVE MANAGEMENT OF A PATIENT WITH MYASTHENIA

Open Access

1 December 1979

journal article
research article
Published by Elsevier in British Journal of Anaesthesia

Vol. 51 (12) , 1181-1184
https://doi.org/10.1093/bja/51.12.1181

Abstract

The anaesthetic and postoperative management of a patient with established myasthenia gravis, using a mandatory minute volume system (MMV), are described. Before operation the patient was receiving large doses of anticholinesterases and steroids. The anaesthetic and postoperative drug therapy and management were simplified by the use of the MMV system.

Keywords

PHARMACOTHERAPY
MYASTHENIA GRAVIS
ANESTHETICS
CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITORS
PERIOPERATIVE CARE
POSTOPERATIVE CARE
STEROIDS
MANDATORY MINUTE VOLUME VENTILATION
MYASTHENIAS

This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: