Use of Intrathecal and Intravenous Clonidine in A Case of Severe Tetanus with Acute Renal Failure

SUMMARY: Tetanus is an acute often fatal disease produced by the Gram-positive, obligate anaerobic bacterium Clostridium tetani. Prolonged intensive care is required in severe tetanus, with the associated complications including nosocomial sepsis. Autonomic dysfunction in severe tetanus is difficult...

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Autores principales: Kumar, Alok, Anand, Raktima, Rahal, Anita, Od, Sandhya
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2009
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2900107/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20640124
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description SUMMARY: Tetanus is an acute often fatal disease produced by the Gram-positive, obligate anaerobic bacterium Clostridium tetani. Prolonged intensive care is required in severe tetanus, with the associated complications including nosocomial sepsis. Autonomic dysfunction in severe tetanus is difficult to manage and is a significant cause of mortality. We present here, use of clonidine in a case of severe tetanus with acute renal failure who was successfully managed.
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spelling pubmed-29001072010-07-16 Use of Intrathecal and Intravenous Clonidine in A Case of Severe Tetanus with Acute Renal Failure Kumar, Alok Anand, Raktima Rahal, Anita Od, Sandhya Indian J Anaesth Case Report SUMMARY: Tetanus is an acute often fatal disease produced by the Gram-positive, obligate anaerobic bacterium Clostridium tetani. Prolonged intensive care is required in severe tetanus, with the associated complications including nosocomial sepsis. Autonomic dysfunction in severe tetanus is difficult to manage and is a significant cause of mortality. We present here, use of clonidine in a case of severe tetanus with acute renal failure who was successfully managed. Medknow Publications 2009-04 /pmc/articles/PMC2900107/ /pubmed/20640124 Text en © Indian Journal of Anaesthesia http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Use of Intrathecal and Intravenous Clonidine in A Case of Severe Tetanus with Acute Renal Failure
title Use of Intrathecal and Intravenous Clonidine in A Case of Severe Tetanus with Acute Renal Failure
title_full Use of Intrathecal and Intravenous Clonidine in A Case of Severe Tetanus with Acute Renal Failure
title_fullStr Use of Intrathecal and Intravenous Clonidine in A Case of Severe Tetanus with Acute Renal Failure
title_full_unstemmed Use of Intrathecal and Intravenous Clonidine in A Case of Severe Tetanus with Acute Renal Failure
title_short Use of Intrathecal and Intravenous Clonidine in A Case of Severe Tetanus with Acute Renal Failure
title_sort use of intrathecal and intravenous clonidine in a case of severe tetanus with acute renal failure
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2900107/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20640124
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