植物生化学および生理学ジャーナル
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概要

Accidental Intra Arterial Injection of Ephedrine: What about the Treatment with Nitroglycerin?

Sergeja Kozar and Goran Kurnik

Accidental intra-arterial (IA) injection of drugs in the perioperative setting is fortunately a rare event, but it can
cause severe extremity ischaemia, which can result in significant morbidity due to tissue necrosis. There have been
many articles reported about inadvertent intra-arterial injections of various drugs over the last decades.
However, we found none about the unintentional IA injection of ephedrine, so we present the following case.