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REPORT OF A CASE

PAUL H. LORHAN, M.D.

Arch Surg. 1942;44(2):268-278.

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Convulsions or violent involuntary muscular contractions which are occasionally noted in patients during anesthesia induced with ether constitute a definite clinical entity. They cause the anesthetist a great deal of anguish until they are controlled since the death of a patient during a seizure on the operating table is not rare. Lundy¹ reported a mortality rate of 18.97 per cent in a series of 144 cases. Payne² calculated the mortality rate to be 23 per cent. Woolmer and Taylor³ stated the mortality rate to be about 50 per cent. The frequency of ether convulsions is said to be between 1 in 5,000 and 1 in 10,000. Recently reports have been appearing in the literature regarding convulsions during anesthesia induced with divinyl ether.⁴

A sequela equally as tragic as death is complete loss of the mind; this occurred in Weber's⁵ case. His patient was a child . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
KANSAS CITY, KAN.

From the Hixon Laboratory for Medical Research and the Department of Anesthesia, The University of Kansas School of Medicine.

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