@article{ref1,
title="Chloral hydrate poisoning",
journal="Annales Francaises d'Anesthesie et de Reanimation",
year="1994",
author="Fetu, D. and Carel, N. and Fossier, T. and Motreff, C.",
volume="13",
number="5",
pages="745-748",
abstract="The intentional ingestion of 5 g of chloral hydrate by a 67-yr-old man resulted in cardiac arrhythmia including tachyarrhythmia and polymorphic ventricular extrasystoles. As the ingested agent was unknown at admission, the patient was treated among others with sodium lactate, a non validated therapy of arrhythmia caused by chloral hydrate overdose. The discontinuation of arrhythmia was in favour of a beneficial effect of this treatment which remains to be confirmed. This unusual therapy is the original point of this case report which allows to question the so-called innocuousness of chloral hydrate, to remind the conventional treatment of the arrhythmias caused by this agent, the place of beta-adrenergic blockers, as well as the therapeutic difficulties when the causative agent remains unknown.<p /><p>Language: fr</p>",
language="fr",
issn="0750-7658",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}