Delayed-onset seizure and cardiac arrest after amitriptyline overdose, treated with intravenous lipid emulsion therapy

Pediatrics

Volumn 130, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Levine, Michael ^a,b   Brooks, Daniel E ^a,c   Franken, Aimee ^d   Graham, Robert ^d  

^a BANNER GOOD SAMARITAN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Banner University Medical Center Phoenix   (United States)

^d PHOENIX CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Amitriptyline; Cardiac arrest; Lipid; Pancreatitis; TCA

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; AMITRIPTYLINE; BICARBONATE; DOPAMINE; FENTANYL; LIDOCAINE; LIPID EMULSION; LORAZEPAM; MAGNESIUM SULFATE; MIDAZOLAM; NORADRENALIN; NORTRIPTYLINE; PHENOBARBITAL; SERTRALINE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; ARTERIAL GAS; ARTICLE; ASSISTED VENTILATION; BRADYPNEA; CASE REPORT; CATHETERIZATION; COMA; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; DRUG OVERDOSE; DRUG SCREENING; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION DISTURBANCE; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; HYPOTENSION; IMMUNOASSAY; INDUCED HYPOTHERMIA; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; PANCREATITIS; PLEURA EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; SIDE EFFECT; SINUS TACHYCARDIA; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; TORSADE DES POINTES; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL;

ADOLESCENT; AMITRIPTYLINE; ANTICONVULSANTS; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS, TRICYCLIC; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, TONIC-CLONIC; FAT EMULSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA, INDUCED; IATROGENIC DISEASE; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, PEDIATRIC; LIPASE; LIPIDS; OVERDOSE; PANCREATITIS; PHENOBARBITAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TACHYCARDIA, SINUS;

EID: 84864498228     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2011-2511     Document Type: Article

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