Refractory anaphylactic cardiac arrest after succinylcholine administration

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 109, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 137-140

  Baumann, Antoine ^a   Studnicska, Daniela ^a   Audibert, Gérard ^a   Bondar, Attila ^a   Fuhrer, Yannick ^a   Carteaux, Jean Pierre ^b   Mertes, Paul M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NANCY   (France)

^b CHU NANCY BRABOIS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; ANESTHETIC AGENT; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; PROPOFOL; SUXAMETHONIUM; TERLIPRESSIN; TRYPTASE;

ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ANAPHYLACTIC SHOCK; ANAPHYLAXIS; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; APPENDECTOMY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; ENZYME BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; FATALITY; MIDDLE AGED;

AGED; ANAPHYLAXIS; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SUCCINYLCHOLINE;

EID: 67650689568     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ane.0b013e3181a775b2     Document Type: Article

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