Severe Cardiac Arrhythmia during Halothane Anesthesia . |
Yong Suk Kim, In Ho Kim, Sok Hee Lee |
Department of Anesthesiology, College of Medicine, Pusan National University, Pusan, Korea. |
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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. |
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