Treatment with lipid therapy to resuscitate a patient suffering from toxicity due to local anesthetics
Recently, although without a universal recognition, the use of lipid emulsions as a rescue therapy for the bupivacaine cardiac toxicity has been proposed. In this article we report a successful resuscitation of a patient after the injection of bupivacaine in emergency room and a commented review of...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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PAGEPress Publications
2014-06-01
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Series: | Emergency Care Journal |
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Online Access: | http://www.pagepressjournals.org/index.php/ecj/article/view/1820 |