Survival after cardiac arrest and severe lactic acidosis (pH 6.61) due to haemorrhage

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 800-801

  Spencer, Craig ^a   Butler, John ^b  

^a WYTHENSHAWE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b MANCHESTER ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COCAINE; CREATINE KINASE; FRESH FROZEN PLASMA; GELATIN SUCCINATE; NORADRENALIN;

ADULT; AGITATION; ALCOHOL INTOXICATION; ARTERIAL GAS; ARTICLE; ASSISTED VENTILATION; BLEEDING; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; CASE REPORT; DIATHERMY; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; EMERGENCY WARD; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HAEMOPHILUS INFECTION; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE PNEUMONIA; HEART ARREST; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; HYPOTHERMIA; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTUBATION; KNIFE CUT; LACTIC ACIDOSIS; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; MALE; PLASMA TRANSFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; RHABDOMYOLYSIS; SURVIVAL; TACHYCARDIA; VEIN LIGATION;

ACIDOSIS, LACTIC; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; HEART ARREST; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; LACTATES; MALE; WOUNDS, STAB; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77957205153     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: 14720213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emj.2009.074153     Document Type: Article

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