Severe Cardiac Arrhythmia during Halothane Anesthesia .
10.4097/kjae.1978.11.2.175
- Author:
Yong Suk KIM
1
;
In Ho KIM
;
Sok Hee LEE
Author Information
1. Department of Anesthesiology, College of Medicine, Pusan National University, Pusan, Korea.
- Publication Type:Case Report
- MeSH:
Anesthesia*;
Animals;
Arrhythmias, Cardiac*;
Atropine;
Epinephrine;
Ether;
Halothane*;
Hypercapnia;
Injections, Intravenous
- From:Korean Journal of Anesthesiology
1978;11(2):175-180
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
Numerous reports have documented cardiac arrhythmias in animals and man during halothane anesthesia, Cardiac arrhythmia may occur regularly with halothane anesthesia, being related to several factors; fright, overdoasge of atropine, surgical stimvlation in light anesthesia, hypercapnia and intravenous injection of epinephrine. The authors experienced a case of severe cardiac arrhythmia induced by fialothane anesthesia and treated by change of anesthetic agent to ether.
