Serotonin syndrome after therapeutic hypothermia for cardiac arrest: A case series

Resuscitation

Volumn 85, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 774-777

  Fugate, Jennifer E ^a   White, Roger D ^a   Rabinstein, Alejandro A ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac arrest; Fever; Serotonin syndrome; Therapeutic hypothermia

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; ATRACURIUM BESILATE; CREATINE KINASE; CYPROHEPTADINE; DEXMEDETOMIDINE; DIAZEPAM; FENTANYL; HYDROMORPHONE; MIDAZOLAM; PAROXETINE; SERTRALINE; TRAMADOL;

ADULT; AGITATION; ANALGESIA; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED EXTERNAL DEFIBRILLATOR; CASE REPORT; CASE STUDY; CLONUS; COMA; CONVERSATION; CORE TEMPERATURE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY OCCLUSION; CORONARY ARTERY RECANALIZATION; CORONARY STENT; CREATINE KINASE BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EXTUBATION; FASCICULATION; FEVER; FLUSHING; HEART RHYTHM; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; HYPERREFLEXIA; HYPERTENSION; INDUCED HYPOTHERMIA; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE RIGIDITY; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUT OF HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRISON; RESUSCITATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETURN OF SPONTANEOUS CIRCULATION; RHABDOMYOLYSIS; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; SEDATION; SEROTONIN SYNDROME; SINUS TACHYCARDIA; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; SURFACE COOLING DEVICE; TACHYCARDIA; TEMPERATURE MANAGEMENT DEVICE; TREMOR; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; URINE COLOR; WARMING; WATER TEMPERATURE; HEART ARREST;

ADULT; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA, INDUCED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEROTONIN SYNDROME;

EID: 84901252319     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: 18731570     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2014.02.030     Document Type: Article

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