论文信息 - Anaesthetists' nightmare: masseter spasm after induction in an undiagnosed case of myotonia congenita.

Anaesthetists' nightmare: masseter spasm after induction in an undiagnosed case of myotonia congenita.

We report an undiagnosed case of myotonia congenita in a 24-year-old previously healthy primigravida, who developed life threatening masseter spasm following a standard dose of intravenous suxamethonium for induction of anaesthesia. Neither the patient nor the anaesthetist was aware of the diagnosis before this potentially lethal complication occurred.

I. Looi | T. H. Khoo | A. Bakar | C. H. Lim | P. Samuel

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