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Lidocaine Toxicity Misinterpreted as a Stroke

For more than 50 years lidocaine has been used to treat ventricular arrhythmias. Neurologic dysfunction, manifested as a stroke, occurred acutely in an 87-year-old woman after she had been administered repeated doses of lidocaine, a lidocaine infusion, then an intravenous amiodarone infusion for ven...

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Autores principales: Bursell, Benjamin, Ratzan, Richard M., Smally, Alan J.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, Irvine School of Medicine 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2791737/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20046253