Malignant hyperthermia in ambulatory anaesthetic surgery - a case report

We would like to report about an incident of MH while treating an 18 years old patient with an ambulant general anaesthesia in a surgery. The triggeri ng substance was sevoflurane. As the treating doctor was low on stock of da ntrolen, the patient was therefore admitted to hospital in a life-threateni ng state. Due to the mild course of the MH the patient recovered after bein g treated with dantrolene in our hospital. Consequential damage did not occ ur. This case shows the necessity to provide dantrolene to all anaesthetic departments in a sufficient quantity including ambulant anaesthetic surgeri es, too.