Therapeutic Hypothermia in Cocaine-Induced Cardiac Arrest

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 135-137

  Fuller, Everett T ^a   Milling Jr , Truman J ^b   Price, Brian ^b   Spangle, Karen ^a  

^a CARL R DARNALL ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Brackenridge Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; ATROPINE; COCAINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASYSTOLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CASE REPORT; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; COMA; COOLING; DEFIBRILLATION; DRUG INTOXICATION; DRUG OVERDOSE; DRUG SCREENING; DRUG URINE LEVEL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HEART PACING; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; HYPOTHERMIA; INDUCED HYPOTHERMIA; INTUBATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; COCAINE-RELATED DISORDERS; COMA; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA, INDUCED; RESUSCITATION;

EID: 38149094007     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2007.09.008     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. Bernard S., Jones B., and Horne M. Clinical trial of induced hypothermia in comatose survivors of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. Ann Emerg Med 30 (1997) 146-152
2. Yanagawa Y., Ishihara S., Norio H., et al. Preliminary clinical outcome study of mild resuscitative hypothermia after out-of-hospital cardiopulmonary arrest. Resuscitation 39 (1998) 61-66
3. Bernard S., Gray T., Buist M., et al. Treatment of comatose survivors of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest with induced hypothermia. N Engl J Med 346 (2002) 557-563
4. Hypothermia after Cardiac Arrest Study Group. Mild therapeutic hypothermia to improve the neurologic outcome after cardiac arrest. N Engl J Med 346 (2002) 549-556
5. Baumann J., and DiDomenico R. Cocaine-induced channelopathies: emerging evidence on the multiple mechanisms of sudden death. J Cardiovasc Pharmacol Ther 7 (2002) 195-202
6. Crumb W., and Clarkton C. Characterization of cocaine-induced block of cardiac sodium channels. Biophys J 57 (1990) 589-599
7. Eisenberg M., Horwood B., Cummins R., et al. Cardiac arrest and resuscitation: a tale of 29 cities. Ann Emerg Med 19 (1990) 179-184
8. Hsue P., McManus D., Selby V., et al. Cardiac arrest in patients who smoke crack cocaine. Am J Cardiol 99 (2007) 822-824
9. Sporer K., and Firestone J. Clinical course of crack cocaine body stuffers. Ann Emerg Med 29 (1997) 596-601
10. Fineschi V., Centini F., Monciotti F., et al. The cocaine "body stuffer" syndrome: a fatal case. Forensic Sci Int 126 (2002) 7-10
11. Derlet R., and Albertson T. Emergency department presentation of cocaine intoxication. Ann Emerg Med 18 (1989) 182-186
12. Brody S., Slovis C., and Wrenn K. Cocaine-related medical problems: consecutive series of 233 patients. Am J Med 88 (1990) 325-331
13. June R., Aks S., Keys N., et al. Medical outcome of cocaine bodystuffers. J Emerg Med 18 (2000) 221-224
14. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Office of Applied Studies. Drug Abuse Warning Network, 2003: Area Profiles of Drug-Related Mortality. Rockville, MD: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Office of Applied Studies; 2005. DAWN Series D-27, DHHS Publication No. (SMA) 05-4023.
15. Ortega-Carnicer J., Bertos-Polo J., and Gutierrez-Tirado C. Aborted sudden death, transient brugada pattern, and wide QRS dysrhythmias after massive cocaine ingestion. J Electrocardiol 34 (2001) 345-349
16. Karch S. Cardiac arrest in cocaine users. Am J Emerg Med 14 (1996) 79-81