AANA Journal course: update for nurse anesthetists--genetic testing for malignant hyperthermia.

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AANA Journal course: update for nurse anesthetists--genetic testing for malignant hyperthermia.

AANA journal - 1 Dec 1996

Curtis S

Abstract excerpt

The "gold standard" for the determination of susceptibility to malignant hyperthermia has long been the caffeine-halothane-contracture test, which is costly and invasive. As the workings of molecular genetics are better understood, research is being applied to finding the causative gene for malig...

Topics

Chromosome Mapping
Education, Nursing, Continuing
Genetic Testing
Humans
Malignant Hyperthermia
Molecular Biology
Mutation
Nurse Anesthetists

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