Lipid emulsion and recovery from local anesthetic-induced "cardiac arrest": Misleading interpretations

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 110, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1750-1751

  Warren, Lisa ^a   Weinberg, Guy ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUPIVACAINE; LIPID EMULSION; LIPOFUNDIN; MEPIVACAINE; ROPIVACAINE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ANESTHETIC RECOVERY; ASYSTOLE; CARDIOTOXICITY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG FORMULATION; FLUID RESUSCITATION; HEART ARREST; HEART PERFUSION; HUMAN; LETTER; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOMMENDED DRUG DOSE;

ANESTHESIA RECOVERY PERIOD; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; ANIMALS; BUPIVACAINE; CORONARY CIRCULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FAT EMULSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS;

EID: 77953220536     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0b013e3181d7af2b     Document Type: Letter

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