Severe hydrogen sulphide poisoning treated with 4-dimethylaminophenol and hyperbaric oxygen

Diving and Hyperbaric Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 213-217

  Lindenmann, Joerg ^a   Matzi, Veronika ^a   Neuboeck, Nicole ^a   Ratzenhofer Komenda, Beatrice ^b   Maier, Alfred ^c   Smolle Juettner, Freyja Maria ^c  

^a Department of Surgery   (Austria)

^b Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine ^*  (Austria)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Clinical toxicology; Exogenous poison; Hyperbaric oxygen therapy; Hyperbaric oxygenation; Outcome; Resuscitation

Indexed keywords

4 DIMETHYLAMINOPHENOL; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BRONCHODILATING AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; CREATINE KINASE MB; HYDROGEN SULFIDE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; METHEMOGLOBIN; MUCOLYTIC AGENT; MYOGLOBIN; PREDNISOLONE; TROPONIN T;

ACID BASE BALANCE; ADD ON THERAPY; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; CREATINE KINASE BLOOD LEVEL; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FEMALE; GAS POISONING; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPERBARIC OXYGEN; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE BLOOD LEVEL; LUNG EDEMA; LUNG INFECTION; MALE; MORTALITY; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; OUTPATIENT CARE; PLEURA EFFUSION; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; RESUSCITATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TISSUE OXYGENATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79551544262     PISSN: 18333516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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