Cardiac arrest following chlormethiazole infusion in chronic alcoholics
- 1 October 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Postgraduate Medical Journal
- Vol. 56 (660) , 742-743
- https://doi.org/10.1136/pgmj.56.660.742
Abstract
Two chronic alcoholics who had cardiac arrests (one fatal) while receiving chlormethiazole by infusion are reported. Although a causal relationship has not been indisputably established, caution is advised when administering this drug to chronic alcoholics during withdrawal.This publication has 14 references indexed in Scilit:
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