Answer:
According to the MHAUS website under “FAQs: General MH Questions: How is MH Treated?” cold isotonic saline for IV infusion and gastric, peritoneal or rectal irrigation is recommended.
If all you had at hand to emergently cool a patient was cold IV lactated ringers solution, it could certainly be used (at least until you could get some isotonic saline to give).
However, would not make a special effort to stock it in an MH cart. Keep things simple and have cold IV saline 0.9% available. Also, LR has a bit more potassium in it than saline and the possibility that a patient may receive a large volume of IV fluid during an MH event could exacerbate the hyperkalemia that often occurs during MH.
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