Anaesthesia in Patients with Neuromuscular Diseases -New Concepts for Old Problems?

Patients with neuromuscular diseases (NMD) present numerous, clinically relevant special features; the perioperative care of this patient group requires therefore specific knowledge and anaesthesiological concepts. Many NMD are very rare, for example Duchenne s muscular dystrophy with about 3 : 10.000 living-finally births is quietly the most frequent form of inherited muscle dystrophies. Other NMD show even smaller incidences and anaesthesiological experiences are mostly presented only by case reports. For the anaesthesiological care of these patients comes complicating in addition, that some NMD are clinically…