Clinical presentation of local anesthetic systemic toxicity: A review of published cases, 1979 to 2009

Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 181-187

  Di Gregorio, Guido ^a   Neal, Joseph M ^b   Rosenquist, Richard W ^c   Weinberg, Guy L ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b VIRGINIA MASON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUPIVACAINE; LEVOBUPIVACAINE; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; ROPIVACAINE;

AGITATION; ANESTHESIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; ARTICLE; BRADYCARDIA; BRAIN TOXICITY; CARDIOTOXICITY; CONFUSION; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; DIZZINESS; DROWSINESS; DYSARTHRIA; DYSPHORIA; DYSPNEA; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPOTENSION; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; NEUROTOXICITY; PAIN; PARESTHESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QRS COMPLEX; REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; SEIZURE; SIDE EFFECT; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; SYSTEMIC DISEASE; SYSTEMIC TOXICITY; TACHYCARDIA; TINNITUS;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; COMA; FEMALE; HEART; HUMANS; MALE; SEIZURES;

EID: 77952363722     PISSN: 10987339     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AAP.0b013e3181d2310b     Document Type: Article

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