A Teenager With Seizures and Cardiac Arrest After Drug Overdose: Are We Numb to the Danger?

Pediatr Emerg Care. 2017 Sep;33(9):657-659. doi: 10.1097/PEC.0000000000001258.

Authors

Matthew Szadkowski¹, Zachary Drapkin, Hilary Hewes, E Martin Caravati, Jennifer Plumb

Affiliation

¹ Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, University of Utah School of Medicine; Salt Lake City, UT Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of Surgery, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT (e-mail: jennifer.plumb@hsc.utah.edu).

PMID: 28872568
DOI: 10.1097/PEC.0000000000001258

No abstract available

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Adolescent
Anesthetics, Local / poisoning*
Arrhythmias, Cardiac / etiology
Drug Overdose / complications*
Drug Overdose / diagnosis
Electrocardiography
Fatal Outcome
Female
Heart Arrest / etiology*
Humans
Lidocaine / poisoning*
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Seizures / etiology*

Substances

Anesthetics, Local
Lidocaine