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Am J Psychiatry 1982; 139:1065-1066
Copyright © 1982 by American Psychiatric Association

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ECT use for a patient with malignant hyperthermia

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The authors used dantrolene as a prophylactic during ECT with a depressed patient susceptible to malignant hyperthermia. Succinylcholine and tricyclic and MAO-inhibiting antidepressants can precipitate malignant hyperthermia and were thus avoided.


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