Citation

Nagesh RV, Murphy KA. Am. J. Kidney Dis. 1988; 12(4): 316-318.

Affiliation

Department of Internal Medicine, Foote Hospital, Inc., Jackson, MI 49201.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1988, National Kidney Foundation, Publisher Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

3177374

Abstract

A case of acute caffeine poisoning with resultant ventricular fibrillation and coma was treated by emergency hemoperfusion. Clinical symptomatology improved dramatically with resolution of arrhythmias and return to normal consciousness over a five-hour period.

Language: en