Compartment syndrome after 'bath salts' use: A case series

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 480-483

  Levine, Michael ^a,b   Levitan, Rachel ^b   Skolnik, Aaron ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b BANNER GOOD SAMARITAN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAFFEINE; CATHINONE; CITALOPRAM; COTININE; CREATINE KINASE; HYDROCODONE; HYDROXYZINE; IBUPROFEN; LORAZEPAM; NAPROXEN; NICOTINE; PARACETAMOL; PROPOFOL; TRIMETHOPRIM; TROPONIN I; VECURONIUM;

ADULT; AGITATION; ALKALINIZATION; APNEA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CASE STUDY; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPARTMENT SYNDROME; CONVALESCENCE; DEPRESSION; DISEASE COURSE; EMERGENCY WARD; EXTUBATION; FASCIOTOMY; FOLLOW UP; HEMODIALYSIS; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIA; HYPERTRANSAMINASEMIA; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MALE; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; NASOGASTRIC TUBE; NEUROSURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POINT OF CARE TESTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHABDOMYOLYSIS; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; TACHYCARDIA; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY;

EID: 84876686616     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: 10976760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2012.11.021     Document Type: Article

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