Dexmedetomidine sedation (and cardiac perforation, pericardial tamponade, cardiac arrest, and cardiopulmonary resuscitation) leading to refractory cardiogenic shock

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 108, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 379-380

  Hutchens, Michael P ^a   Thorborg, Per ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEXMEDETOMIDINE; HYPNOTIC SEDATIVE AGENT; VASOCONSTRICTOR AGENT;

BRADYCARDIA; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CARDIOGENIC SHOCK; CASE REPORT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY SPASM; DRUG FATALITY; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG TOLERABILITY; HEART ARREST; HEART MUSCLE NECROSIS; HEART TAMPONADE; HEART VENTRICLE PERFORATION; HUMAN; LETTER; PERICARDIOCENTESIS; POLYCYTHEMIA VERA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; SEDATION; VASOCONSTRICTION; HEART INJURY; NOTE; PATHOLOGY; RISK FACTOR;

CARDIAC TAMPONADE; CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; DEXMEDETOMIDINE; HEART ARREST; HEART INJURIES; HUMANS; HYPNOTICS AND SEDATIVES; RISK FACTORS; SHOCK, CARDIOGENIC; VASOCONSTRICTOR AGENTS;

EID: 58749094292     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ane.0b013e31818c0d06     Document Type: Letter

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