Update on the use of lipid emulsions in local anesthetic systemic toxicity: A focus on differential efficacy and lipid emulsion as part of advanced cardiac life support

International Anesthesiology Clinics

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 91-103

  Ozcan, Mehmet S ^a   Weinberg, Guy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; AMIODARONE; BUPIVACAINE; HEMOGLOBIN; INTRALIPID; LEVOBUPIVACAINE; LIDOCAINE; LIPID EMULSION; LIPOFUNDIN; LIPOSYN II; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; MEDIALIPIDE; MEPIVACAINE; METHEMOGLOBIN; PRILOCAINE; ROPIVACAINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADVERSE OUTCOME; AGITATION; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; ASYSTOLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONFUSION; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; DIZZINESS; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG SAFETY; HEART ARREST; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART SUPRAVENTRICULAR ARRHYTHMIA; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HEPATOSPLENOMEGALY; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; IN VITRO STUDY; INFLAMMATION; LD 50; LOCAL ANESTHETIC SYSTEMIC TOXICITY; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; MYOCLONUS; NONHUMAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QRS COMPLEX; RESUSCITATION; SEIZURE; SIDE EFFECT; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; T WAVE INVERSION; TORSADE DES POINTES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADVANCED CARDIAC LIFE SUPPORT; ANESTHESIA, CONDUCTION; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; ANIMALS; BUPIVACAINE; FAT EMULSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; HUMANS;

EID: 80053541858     PISSN: 00205907     EISSN: 15371913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AIA.0b013e318217fe6f     Document Type: Conference Paper

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