The lack of appropriate guidelines for workstation preparation could endanger patients with malignant hyperthermia, who experience an exaggerated metabolic response when exposed to volatile anesthetic gases and succinylcholine. The Malignant Hyperthermia Association of the United States provides specific instructions on purging anesthesia machines of volatile agents, but these recommendations are out-dated and based on older generation machines.
The study concludes that new protocols must be established to prepare newer generation anesthesia machines to purge volatile agents.
Read the Anesthesiology study on anesthesia workstation preparation.
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