Anesthesiology
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The US Food and Drug Administration issued a black box warning regarding the use of droperidol and the potential for torsade de pointes (TdP). ⋯ This indicates that the Food and Drug Administration black box warning for low dose droperidol is excessive and unnecessary.
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The authors hypothesized that intramuscular sevoflurane injection allows diagnostic differentiation between malignant hyperthermia-susceptible (MHS) and -nonsusceptible (MHN) pigs by measurement of intramuscular lactate and carbon dioxide partial pressure (PCO2), and that dantrolene reduces the sevoflurane-induced PCO2 increase. ⋯ Local sevoflurane induces a hypermetabolic reaction measured by PCO2 and lactate increases. The reduced PCO2 increase in MHS after sevoflurane and dantrolene injection is likely to be a result of the sevoflurane-mediated calcium release and its antagonism by dantrolene. Sevoflurane may be useful for a less invasive diagnostic test for malignant hyperthermia in humans.