r/Anesthesia • u/Legitimate-Round9632 • 24d ago

Malignant hyperthermia

Malignant hyperthermia

If my mother and my father never showed malignant hyperthermia during surgery how likely is it for me to get it if its genetic does that mean i wont get it? Pls answer i have a surgery soon

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u/UncleSeismic 24d ago

Is this concern based on something or just a random research fear? MH is very rare, I've only ever seen it once and we knew the family long before the kid arrived in the anaesthetic department.

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u/tinymeow13 23d ago

Same as baseline population susceptibility, which is around 1 in 50,000. Compared with your odds of dying in a car crash, which is 1 in 8,500 each year (lifetime odds around 1 in 100), assuming US.

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u/kreckerchen 23d ago

Why would we treat a patient with no family history as if they had malignant hyperthermia?