Patient Information and Anaesthetic Risk Card

The following fields are completed and given to the patient as a portable card. It should be shown in the emergency department, at the dentist and before every elective procedure.

• Name, date of birth; diagnosis and genetic subtype; treating physician and contact details.
• Anaesthetic warning: suxamethonium is not to be used; inhalational agents may carry risk and total intravenous anaesthesia is preferred; malignant hyperthermia susceptibility present / absent / unknown.
• Respiratory: home ventilation, cough assist device, baseline oxygen saturation.
• Cardiac: cardiomyopathy or conduction disease, current cardiac medication.
• Corticosteroid use — if present, stress dosing is required during illness and surgery.
• Route of feeding and aspiration risk; current medication; allergies.
• Drugs to avoid: in myasthenia, aminoglycosides, fluoroquinolones, macrolides and magnesium; in CMT1A, vincristine.
• Emergency contact.