Case 15-2009: A 25-year-old man with coma after cardiac arrest

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 360, Issue 20, 2009, Pages 2118-2125

  Kotton, Camille N ^a,c   Elias, Nahel ^a,c   Delmonico, Francis L ^b,c   Kradin, Richard L ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b England Organ Bank   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ATROPINE; BICARBONATE; GLUCOSE; LIDOCAINE; LORAZEPAM; MANNITOL; NALOXONE; OMEPRAZOLE; PROTEIN; UROBILINOGEN; VECURONIUM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; CASE REPORT; COLITIS; COMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CRYSTALLOID; DEFIBRILLATION; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEART ARREST; HEART RHYTHM; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INTESTINE SCHISTOSOMIASIS; LABORATORY TEST; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORGAN DONOR; PH MEASUREMENT; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RESUSCITATION; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SINUS TACHYCARDIA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; ULCERATIVE COLITIS; URINALYSIS; ANIMAL; BIOPSY; BRAIN DEATH; CECUM; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CLINICAL STUDY; DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DONOR; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FATALITY; INTESTINE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MIGRATION; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PATIENT SELECTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS MANSONI; STANDARD;

ADULT; ANIMALS; BIOPSY; BRAIN DEATH; CECUM; COMA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; ENDEMIC DISEASES; FATAL OUTCOME; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; INTESTINES; MALE; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PATIENT SELECTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS MANSONI; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 65649154036     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMcpc0806982     Document Type: Article

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