Anesthetic Management of a Patient with Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome

Stephen A. Vitkun, MD,* Remigio V. Boccio, MD,? Paul J. Poppers, MD$ of Anesthesiology and Medicine, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY.

Ijepartrnents

Neuroleptic

malignant

syndrome

is an uncommon,

cratic, and sometimes life-threatening the use of neuroleptic malignant syndrome

idiosyn-

disorder associated

with

drugs. The pathogenesis of neuroleptir is uncertain, but it may be similar to

that of mali