BET 5: IS DANTROLENE THE BEST WAY TO TREAT HYPERTHERMIA IN PATIENTS WITH COCAINE ABUSE?

Report by Dr Joanne Probert , Clinical Fellow Emergency Medicine Search checked by Dr Jacqui Macnair , Clinical Fellow Emergency Medicine Institution: Bristol Royal Infirmary, Bristol, UK ### CLINICAL SCENARIO A 26-year-old man attends the emergency department having recently used cocaine. He is hyperthermic. You have heard that dantrolene may have a place in the management of …