Intravenous lipid emulsion: Why wait to save a life?

EMA - Emergency Medicine Australasia

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 113-115

  Weinberg, Guy L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMFEBUTAMONE; BUPIVACAINE; LAMOTRIGINE; LIPID EMULSION;

CARDIOTOXICITY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG OVERDOSE; EDITORIAL; FATTY ACID OXIDATION; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION;

ANESTHESIA, LOCAL; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FAT EMULSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; OVERDOSE; RESUSCITATION;

EID: 79954463946     PISSN: 17426731     EISSN: 17426723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-6723.2011.01400.x     Document Type: Editorial

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