Hyperkalemia and cardiac arrest following succinylcholine administration in a 16-year-old boy with acute nonlymphoblastic leukemia and sepsis

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 183-185

  Piotrowski, Andrzej J ^a   Fendler, Wojciech M ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF LODZ   (Poland)

Author keywords

Asystole; Hyperpotassemia; Intubation; Ventricular fibrillation

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; ATROPINE; BICARBONATE; CIPROFLOXACIN; CYTARABINE; DROTRECOGIN; HYDROCORTISONE; IMIPENEM; KETAMINE; LIDOCAINE; PANCURONIUM; PREDNISONE; PROPOFOL; SUXAMETHONIUM; TIOGUANINE;

ACUTE NONLYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADOLESCENT; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BRADYCARDIA; CASE REPORT; HEART ARREST; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; HYPERKALEMIA; HYPOTENSION; INTENSIVE CARE; INTUBATION; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SEPSIS; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; TACHYCARDIA;

EID: 34147156647     PISSN: 15297535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PCC.0000257103.96579.B2     Document Type: Article

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