Local anaesthetic toxicity

Current Anaesthesia and Critical Care

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 52-54

  Odedra, Dipesh ^a   Lyons, Gordon ^a  

^a ST JAMES S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anaesthetic; Emulsion; Lipid; Local; Toxicity

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; BUPIVACAINE; COCAINE; ETIDOCAINE; INTRALIPID; LIDOCAINE; LIPID EMULSION; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; VASOCONSTRICTOR AGENT;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ASYSTOLE; BOLUS INJECTION; CARDIOTOXICITY; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONVULSION; DRUG ABSORPTION; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG DISTRIBUTION; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG ELIMINATION; DRUG FATALITY; DRUG LABELING; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG METABOLISM; DRUG PROTEIN BINDING; DRUG STORAGE; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; FRACTIONATION; GOOD CLINICAL PRACTICE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; MATERNAL MORTALITY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; OBSTETRIC ANESTHESIA; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOMMENDED DRUG DOSE; REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; RESUSCITATION; SEIZURE; SHOCK; SINGLE DRUG DOSE;

EID: 73749084720     PISSN: 09537112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cacc.2009.07.016     Document Type: Article

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