Lidocaine Toxicity Misinterpreted as a Stroke

For more than 50 years lidocaine has been used to treat ventricular arrhythmias. Neurologic dysfunction, manifested as a stroke, occurred acutely in an 87-year-old woman after she had been administered repeated doses of lidocaine, a lidocaine infusion, then an intravenous amiodarone infusion for ven...

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Main Authors: Bursell, Benjamin, Smally, Alan J, Ratzan, Richard M
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eScholarship Publishing, University of California 2009-11-01
Series:Western Journal of Emergency Medicine
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Online Access:http://escholarship.org/uc/item/6b31j01f