Severe propranolol and ethanol overdose with wide complex tachycardia treated with intravenous lipid emulsion: A case report

Clinical Toxicology

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 426-430

  Jovic Stosic, Jasmina ^a   Gligic, Branko ^a   Putic, Vesna ^a   Brajkovic, Gordana ^a   Spasic, Radenko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DEFENCE   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Intravenous lipid emulsion; Propranolol overdose; Wide complex tachycardia

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; ATROPINE; DIAZEPAM; DOPAMINE; INTRALIPID; LIPID EMULSION; PROPRANOLOL;

ADULT; ALCOHOL INTOXICATION; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMA; DIURESIS; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG OVERDOSE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; HYPOGLYCEMIA; INTOXICATION; PROPRANOLOL POISONING; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SEIZURE; SHOCK; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; TOXICITY TESTING;

ADRENERGIC BETA-ANTAGONISTS; ADULT; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ETHANOL; FAT EMULSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; OVERDOSE; PROPRANOLOL; TACHYCARDIA;

EID: 79960262571     PISSN: 15563650     EISSN: 15569519     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/15563650.2011.583251     Document Type: Article

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