Refractory metabolic acidosis in patients with sepsis following hemiarthroplasty for femoral neck fracture: A causative role for paracetamol and flucloxacillin?

BMJ Case Reports

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Amer, Halima ^a   Dockery, Frances ^a   Barrett, Nicholas ^a   George, Marc ^a   Witek, Karolina ^a   Stanton, Jeremy ^a   Back, Diane ^a  

^a GUY'S AND ST THOMAS' NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DAPTOMYCIN; FLUCLOXACILLIN; PARACETAMOL;

AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; CASE REPORT; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; FEMALE; FEMUR NECK FRACTURE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HIP HEMIARTHROPLASTY; HIP PAIN; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOKALEMIA; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS INFECTION; PYROGLUTAMATE ACIDOSIS; SEPSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SUBSTITUTION THERAPY; UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL BLEEDING; URINALYSIS; WOUND DEHISCENCE;

EID: 80051825991     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1757790X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bcr.05.2011.4292     Document Type: Article

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