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Persistent Hypertensive Response Following Dexmedetomidine Infusion in a Patient with Cervical Spinal Cord Injury

We report a 19-year-old male patient, an operated case of anterior cervical discectomy and fusion for traumatic C5–C6 vertebral injury, who developed persistent hypertension following dexmedetomidine infusion in the Intensive Care Unit to enable tolerance of noninvasive ventilation mask. This unusua...

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Autores principales: Chavali, Siddharth, Singh, Shalendra, Kaushal, Ashutosh, Khandelwal, Ankur, Roy, Hirok
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6050773/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30069106
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jnrp.jnrp_527_17
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description We report a 19-year-old male patient, an operated case of anterior cervical discectomy and fusion for traumatic C5–C6 vertebral injury, who developed persistent hypertension following dexmedetomidine infusion in the Intensive Care Unit to enable tolerance of noninvasive ventilation mask. This unusual side effect should be borne in mind when using this drug in patients with cervical spine injuries.
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spelling pubmed-60507732018-08-01 Persistent Hypertensive Response Following Dexmedetomidine Infusion in a Patient with Cervical Spinal Cord Injury Chavali, Siddharth Singh, Shalendra Kaushal, Ashutosh Khandelwal, Ankur Roy, Hirok J Neurosci Rural Pract Case Report We report a 19-year-old male patient, an operated case of anterior cervical discectomy and fusion for traumatic C5–C6 vertebral injury, who developed persistent hypertension following dexmedetomidine infusion in the Intensive Care Unit to enable tolerance of noninvasive ventilation mask. This unusual side effect should be borne in mind when using this drug in patients with cervical spine injuries. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018 /pmc/articles/PMC6050773/ /pubmed/30069106 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jnrp.jnrp_527_17 Text en Copyright: © 2018 Journal of Neurosciences in Rural Practice http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Persistent Hypertensive Response Following Dexmedetomidine Infusion in a Patient with Cervical Spinal Cord Injury
title Persistent Hypertensive Response Following Dexmedetomidine Infusion in a Patient with Cervical Spinal Cord Injury
title_full Persistent Hypertensive Response Following Dexmedetomidine Infusion in a Patient with Cervical Spinal Cord Injury
title_fullStr Persistent Hypertensive Response Following Dexmedetomidine Infusion in a Patient with Cervical Spinal Cord Injury
title_full_unstemmed Persistent Hypertensive Response Following Dexmedetomidine Infusion in a Patient with Cervical Spinal Cord Injury
title_short Persistent Hypertensive Response Following Dexmedetomidine Infusion in a Patient with Cervical Spinal Cord Injury
title_sort persistent hypertensive response following dexmedetomidine infusion in a patient with cervical spinal cord injury
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6050773/
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