Recurrent life-threatening ventricular dysrhythmias associated with acute hydrofluoric acid ingestion: Observations in one case and implications for mechanism of toxicity

Clinical Toxicology

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 79-84

  Vohra, Rais ^a   Velez, Larissa I ^a,b   Rivera, Wilfredo ^a   Benitez, Fernando L ^a   Delaney, Kathleen A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Dysrhythmias; Hydrofluoric acid; Hyperkalemia; Hypocalcemia; Toxicology

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; ATROPINE; BICARBONATE; CALCIUM CHLORIDE; CHLORIDE; CREATININE; FLUORIDE; HEMOGLOBIN; HYDROFLUORIC ACID; LIDOCAINE; MAGNESIUM; MAGNESIUM SULFATE; POTASSIUM; PROTON PUMP INHIBITOR; SODIUM; UREA;

AGED; ANION GAP; ARTERIAL GAS; ARTICLE; BICARBONATE BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY TEMPERATURE; BREATHING RATE; CASE REPORT; CHLORIDE BLOOD LEVEL; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DEFIBRILLATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY MONITORING; EMERGENCY WARD; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; EPIGASTRIC PAIN; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEALTH HAZARD; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HEMATOCRIT; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERKALEMIA; HYPOCALCEMIA; INGESTION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAGNESIUM BLOOD LEVEL; POTASSIUM BLOOD LEVEL; PR INTERVAL; PSYCHIATRIC TREATMENT; PULSE RATE; QRS COMPLEX; QT INTERVAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SINUS RHYTHM; SODIUM BLOOD LEVEL; UREA NITROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; VOMITING;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; CALCIUM CHLORIDE; ELECTRIC COUNTERSHOCK; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROFLUORIC ACID; HYPOCALCEMIA; LIDOCAINE; MAGNESIUM; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION;

EID: 37649001185     PISSN: 15563650     EISSN: 15569519     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15563650701639097     Document Type: Article

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