Articles on Anesthetics and CMT

(If you are having surgery it is recommended that you print out ALL of the articles below and give them to your doctor and anesthetist. Also search the internet and CMT organization databases for any new drugs that might be contraindicated for people with CMT as an anesthetic.)

• Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease and Anesthetics by Linda Crabtree with suggestions from Dr. Greg Carter, Medical Director, Providence Rehabilitation Hospital, Chehalis, WA, USA
• Anesthetics by Dr. P.J. Halsall and Professor F. R. Ellis (anesthetics and neuromuscular disease in general)
• Oxygen is NOT for hypoventilation in neuromuscular disease by E.A. Oppenheimer, MD, FCCP.
• Something about local anesthetics you should know by Jo-Ann E.T. Fox-Threlkeld, RN, PH.D. Professor, School of Nursing and Dept. of Biomedical Sciences, Co-ordinator Clinical Health Sciences (Nursing) Graduate Program McMaster University University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
• Anesthesia and the CMT Patient by Joseph F. Antognini, M.D., University of California David Medical Centre
• Anesthetics Research Journal Articles and Research Update on Thiopental
• Drugs which may aggravate or exacerbate CMT and HNPP