Cardiac arrest in infancy: Don't forget glucose!

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 27, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 720-721

  Salter, Nigel ^a   Quin, Gareth ^a   Tracy, Eileen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL LIMERICK   (Ireland)

^b Children's University Hospital   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; KETONE; MEDIUM CHAIN ACYL COENZYME A DEHYDROGENASE;

APNEA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLLAPSE; ENZYME DEFICIENCY; FATTY ACID OXIDATION; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; HYPOGLYCEMIA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; SYMPTOM;

ACYL-COA DEHYDROGENASE; BLOOD GLUCOSE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; HYPOGLYCEMIA; LIPID METABOLISM, INBORN ERRORS;

EID: 77956220220     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: 14720213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emj.2009.088831     Document Type: Article

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