Recurrence of cardiotoxicity after lipid rescue from bupivacaine-induced cardiac arrest

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 108, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1344-1346

  Marwick, Peter C ^a   Levin, Andrew I ^a,b   Coetzee, Andre R ^a  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; AMIODARONE; BICARBONATE; BUPIVACAINE; CREATINE KINASE; INSULIN; INTRALIPID; ISOFLURANE; LIPID EMULSION; MIDAZOLAM; POTASSIUM; THIOPENTAL; TROPONIN I; ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT; CARDIOTONIC AGENT; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; APNEA; ARTICLE; ASYSTOLE; BRACHIAL PLEXUS ANESTHESIA; CAPNOGRAPHY; CARDIOTOXICITY; CASE REPORT; CONVULSION; CREATINE KINASE BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; DRY EYE; DRY THROAT; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; HEART ARREST; HEART MUSCLE INJURY; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INOTROPISM; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LOADING DRUG DOSE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; RESUSCITATION; SINUS TACHYCARDIA; TACHYCARDIA; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; DEBRIDEMENT; HUMERUS FRACTURE; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NERVE BLOCK; OPEN FRACTURE; SEIZURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AMIODARONE; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; ANTI-ARRHYTHMIA AGENTS; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; BUPIVACAINE; CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; CARDIOTONIC AGENTS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DEBRIDEMENT; FAT EMULSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; FRACTURES, OPEN; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; HUMERAL FRACTURES; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; NERVE BLOCK; RECURRENCE; SEIZURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 63849163503     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ane.0b013e3181979e17     Document Type: Article

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