Intravenous lipid emulsion in wide complex arrhythmia with alternating bundle branch block pattern from cocaine overdose

Kardiologia Polska

Volumn 71, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1073-1075

  Kundu, Ria ^a   Almasri, Hamzeh ^a   Moza, Ankush ^a   Ghose, Abhimanyu ^a   Assaly, Ragheb ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cocaine; Intravenous lipid emulsion; Wide complex rhythm

Indexed keywords

AMIODARONE; BICARBONATE; CANNABIS; COCAINE; FOSPHENYTOIN SODIUM; LIPID EMULSION; LORAZEPAM; PHENCYCLIDINE; PROPOFOL;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADD ON THERAPY; ADULT; ANION GAP; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTINUOUS HEMODIALYSIS; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; DRUG INTOXICATION; DRUG OVERDOSE; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; DRUG URINE LEVEL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEART LEFT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART RIGHT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; INTUBATION; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; MYDRIASIS; RECURRENT DISEASE; REPEATED DRUG DOSE; RESUSCITATION; RETREATMENT; RHABDOMYOLYSIS; SEPSIS; SINUS RHYTHM; SINUS TACHYCARDIA; TACHYCARDIA; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE;

ADULT; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; BUNDLE-BRANCH BLOCK; COCAINE; DRUG OVERDOSE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FAT EMULSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; MALE; RESUSCITATION; SEIZURES;

EID: 84888271816     PISSN: 00229032     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5603/KP2013.0263     Document Type: Article

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