Life-threatening dysrhythmias in severe thioridazine poisoning treated with physostigmine and transient atrial pacing

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 1925-1930

  Schmidt, Wilhelm ^a   Lang, Klaus ^b  

^a KLINIKUM KASSEL   (Germany)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atrial pacing; Dysrhythmias; Paralytic ileus; Physostigmine; Poisoning; Thioridazine; Torsade de pointes

Indexed keywords

PHYSOSTIGMINE; THIORIDAZINE;

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEFIBRILLATION; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DROWSINESS; DRUG INTOXICATION; HEART ATRIUM ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM PACING; HUMAN; ILEUS; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH LAVAGE; SUICIDE ATTEMPT; TORSADE DES POINTES; TREATMENT PLANNING;

AGED; ANTIDOTES; ANTIPSYCHOTIC AGENTS; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GASTRIC LAVAGE; HUMANS; MALE; PHYSOSTIGMINE; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED; THIORIDAZINE;

EID: 0030775722     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003246-199711000-00036     Document Type: Article

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