Fernández Martín M T, Álvarez López J C
Servicio de Anestesiología y Reanimación, Hospital de Medina del Campo, Medina del Campo, Valladolid, España.
Servicio de Anestesiología y Reanimación, Hospital de Medina del Campo, Medina del Campo, Valladolid, España.
Rev Esp Anestesiol Reanim (Engl Ed). 2018 Jan;65(1):49-52. doi: 10.1016/j.redar.2017.03.018. Epub 2017 May 22.
Multiple chemical sensitivity syndrome is a group of complex disorders that include psychiatric disorders, chronic fatigue and/or respiratory problems. This syndrome could be triggered by specific allergens and toxins that cause neurophysiological sensitization and the appearance of the clinical symptomatology. Anaesthesia for these patients always poses a challenge for the anaesthetist, because they need to find and use drugs that do not trigger or aggravate the symptoms of the disease. Therefore, sevoflurane in these circumstances might be "the ideal anaesthetic". Performing general anaesthesia with sevoflurane as the sole anaesthetic agent, together with a series of environmental measures formed the basis for successful anaesthesia and surgery in our patient with a multiple chemical sensitivity syndrome.
