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Delayed Recovery from General Anaesthesia: A Post-operative Diagnostic Dilemma and Implications of ICU Management of Serotonin Toxicity. Case report Cover

Delayed Recovery from General Anaesthesia: A Post-operative Diagnostic Dilemma and Implications of ICU Management of Serotonin Toxicity. Case report

The Journal of Critical Care Medicine
Volume 1 (2015): Issue 4 (October 2015)
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/jccm-2015-0026 | Journal eISSN: 2393-1817 | Journal ISSN: 2393-1809
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Language: English
Page range: 174 - 178
Submitted on: Jun 4, 2015
Accepted on: Sep 16, 2015
Published online: Nov 10, 2015
Published in print: Oct 1, 2015
Published by: University of Medicine, Pharmacy, Science and Technology of Targu Mures
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 4 issues per year
Keywords:
serotonin syndrome,
neurotoxicity,
general anesthesia
Related subjects:
Medicine,
Clinical medicine,
Internal medicine,
Internal medicine, other,
Surgery,
Surgery, other,
Anaesthesiology,
Emergency medicine and intensive-care medicine

© 2015 Asha Naik, Cristobal Rincon-Aznar, published by University of Medicine, Pharmacy, Science and Technology of Targu Mures
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

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