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A clinical grading scale to predict malignant hyperthermia susceptibility.
Anesthesiology - 1 Apr 1994
Larach M G, Localio A R, Allen G C, Denborough M A, Ellis F R, Gronert G A, Kaplan R F, Muldoon S M, Nelson T E, Ording H
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BACKGROUND: The diagnosis of an acute malignant hyperthermia reaction by clinical criteria can be difficult because of the nonspecific nature and variable incidence of many of the clinical signs and laboratory findings. Development of a standardized means for estimating the qualitative likelihood of malignant hyperthermia in a given patient without the use of specialized diagnostic testing would be useful for...
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