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A review of local anesthetic cardiotoxicity and treatment with lipid emulsion

Cardiovascular collapse from accidental local anesthetic toxicity is a rare but catastrophic complication of regional anesthesia. The long-acting amide local anesthetics bupivacaine, levobupivacaine and ropivacaine have differential cardiac toxicity, but all are capable of causing death with acciden...

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Autores principales: Bourne, Emma, Wright, Christine, Royse, Colin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dove Medical Press 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3417942/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22915863