Korean J Anesthesiol.  1978 Jun;11(2):175-180.

Severe Cardiac Arrhythmia during Halothane Anesthesia

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  • 1Department of Anesthesiology, College of Medicine, Pusan National University, Pusan, Korea.

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.


MeSH Terms

Anesthesia*
Animals
Arrhythmias, Cardiac*
Atropine
Epinephrine
Ether
Halothane*
Hypercapnia
Injections, Intravenous
Atropine
Epinephrine
Ether
Halothane
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