Case of the month: A case of airway obstruction following tenecteplace administration

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 815-816

  Kirkham, Lucy ^a   Homewood, J ^a   Brook, P ^a  

^a BRISTOL ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOPIDOGREL; DEXAMETHASONE; FRESH FROZEN PLASMA; HEPARIN; LIDOCAINE; MORPHINE; PROPOFOL; PROTAMINE; REMIFENTANIL; TENECTEPLASE; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; AGED; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; BOLUS INJECTION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EMERGENCY WARD; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FIBER OPTICS; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HEMATEMESIS; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; LOADING DRUG DOSE; LOW DRUG DOSE; MALE; OXYGEN THERAPY; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBCUTANEOUS HEMORRHAGE; THORAX PAIN; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; HEART INFARCTION; NECK;

AGED; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; HEMATOMA; HUMANS; MALE; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; NECK; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR;

EID: 35748986184     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emj.2006.038737     Document Type: Article

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