3. A fatal case of poisoning by lidocaine overdosage - Analysis of lidocaine in formalin-fixed tissues: A case report

Medicine, Science and the Law

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 266-271

  Kudo, Keiko ^a   Nishida, Naoki ^b   Kiyoshima, Akiko ^c   Ikeda, Noriaki ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b AKITA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIDOCAINE; ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT; FIXATIVE; FORMALDEHYDE;

AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CARDIOPULMONARY ARREST; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CEREBELLUM; CLINICAL FEATURE; DRUG INTOXICATION; DRUG OVERDOSE; FATALITY; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KIDNEY; LIVER; MALE; MUSCLE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; PAROXYSMAL TACHYCARDIA; PONS; RESUSCITATION; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; ANIMAL; BRAIN LEVEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; INTOXICATION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; MEDICATION ERROR; RAT; SKELETAL MUSCLE; WISTAR RAT;

AGED; ANIMALS; ANTI-ARRHYTHMIA AGENTS; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; FATAL OUTCOME; FIXATIVES; FORMALDEHYDE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; KIDNEY; LIDOCAINE; LIVER; MALE; MEDICATION ERRORS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; OVERDOSE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 8444230164     PISSN: 00258024     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/rsmmsl.44.3.266     Document Type: Article

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