Multiple cardiac arrests following an overdose of caffeine complicated by penetrating trauma

Anaesthesia

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 54-56

  Emohare, O ^a   Ratnam, V ^b  

^a CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b WEST MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIODARONE; CAFFEINE; CANNABINOID DERIVATIVE; CREATINE KINASE; LABETALOL; MAGNESIUM; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; PRO PLUS; RINGER LACTATE SOLUTION; SALBUTAMOL; THEOPHYLLINE;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTERIAL GAS; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; AUTOMUTILATION; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CASE REPORT; COLLOID; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEFIBRILLATION; EMERGENCY WARD; FLUID RESUSCITATION; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; GUNSHOT INJURY; HEAD INJURY; HEART ARREST; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTOXICATION; MALE; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PENETRATING TRAUMA; PSORIASIS; RHABDOMYOLYSIS; SEIZURE; SINUS TACHYCARDIA; SKULL RADIOGRAPHY; SUICIDE ATTEMPT; TACHYCARDIA;

ADULT; CAFFEINE; HEAD INJURIES, PENETRATING; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; MALE; OVERDOSE; RHABDOMYOLYSIS; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT;

EID: 33644780605     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: 13652044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.2005.04430.x     Document Type: Article

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