Hyponatraemic convulsions and fatal head injury secondary to desmopressin treatment for enuresis [4]

European Journal of Anaesthesiology

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 895-897

  Larney, V ^a,b   Dwyer, R ^a  

^a BEAUMONT HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^b ST GEORGE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESMOPRESSIN; DIAZEPAM; PHENYTOIN; VASOPRESSIN;

BLEEDING DISORDER; BRAIN CONTUSION; BRAIN EDEMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONVULSION; CRANIOTOMY; DIABETES INSIPIDUS; FLUID INTAKE; HUMAN; HYPONATREMIA; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LETTER; LOBECTOMY; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; MUSCLE HYPOTONIA; NEUROSURGERY; NOCTURNAL ENURESIS; SEIZURE; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

ADULT; ANTICONVULSANTS; ANTIDIURETIC AGENTS; BRAIN; BRAIN EDEMA; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; CRANIOTOMY; DEAMINO ARGININE VASOPRESSIN; DIAZEPAM; FATAL OUTCOME; HEMATOMA, SUBDURAL; HUMANS; HYPONATREMIA; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; MALE; NOCTURNAL ENURESIS; PHENYTOIN; SALINE SOLUTION, HYPERTONIC; SEIZURES; SODIUM; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33749080752     PISSN: 02650215     EISSN: 13652346     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0265021506241371     Document Type: Letter

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