Successful resuscitation of a patient with ropivacaine-induced asystole after axillary plexus block using lipid infusion

Anaesthesia

Volumn 61, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 800-801

  Litz, Rainer J ^a   Popp, M ^a   Stehr, S N ^a   Koch, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL CARL GUSTAV CARUS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; INTRALIPID; MIDAZOLAM; OXYGEN; ROPIVACAINE;

AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; ASYSTOLE; BRACHIAL PLEXUS ANESTHESIA; CASE REPORT; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CONVALESCENCE; DIZZINESS; DOSE RESPONSE; DROWSINESS; DRUG OVERDOSE; DUPUYTREN CONTRACTURE; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HEART OUTPUT; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MEDICATION ERROR; MUSCLE RESECTION; PREMEDICATION; RESUSCITATION; TIME; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMIDES; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; FAT EMULSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; MEDICATION ERRORS; NERVE BLOCK; RESUSCITATION;

EID: 33745865111     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: 13652044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.2006.04740.x     Document Type: Article

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