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Development And Evaluation Of A Malignant Hyperthermia Computer Based Learning Project, Andrew Miller

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Malignant hyperthermia (MH) is a potentially fatal, inherited disorder of muscle hypermetabolism that occurs after a person is exposed to commonly used volatile anesthetic agents (sevoflurane, desflurane, isoflurane) and/or the depolarizing muscle relaxant, succinylcholine (Diu & Mancuso, 2012). The MH mortality rate has decreased from 80% in the 1960s to less than 5% in 2006 due to increased clinical awareness of manifestations, pathophysiology, and improvement in perioperative monitoring (Rosenberg, Pollock, Schiemann, Bulger, & Stowell, 2015). Therefore,continuing education of perioperative staff is an integral part of proper MH preparedness. Computer-based learning (CBL) modules have been shown to be efficient, inexpensive forms …