A Case of Status Epilepticus Following High Dose of Intradermal Lidocaine Injection
Journal of the Korean Society of Emergency Medicine
;
: 595-597, 2008.
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in Korean
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| ID: wpr-31936
ABSTRACT
Lidocaine is widely used as local anesthetic agent in the emergency department. Lidocaine crosses the blood brain barrier rapidly, and has been recognized generally as a proconvulsant drug. Acute lidocaine intoxication has a variety of causes, most of which related to excessive or inappropriate therapeutic dose. It has been recommended the total amount of lidocaine should not exceed 5 mg/kg without epinephrine and 7 mg/kg with epinephrine. We present a case of a patient who developed generalized convulsive status epilepticus following administration of lidocaine for epidermograft.
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WPRIM (Western Pacific)
Main subject:
Seizures
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Status Epilepticus
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Blood-Brain Barrier
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Epinephrine
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Emergencies
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Lidocaine
Limits:
Humans
Language:
Korean
Journal:
Journal of the Korean Society of Emergency Medicine
Year:
2008
Type:
Article
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