Anästhesie, Intensivtherapie, Notfallmedizin
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Anasth Intensivther Notfallmed · Oct 1987
["Round the clock"--an information service for malignant hyperthermia emergencies].
A 24-hour 7-day telephone service has been created for emergency consultation: MH-hotline 030/3035504 (daytime) or 030/30351 (after office hours). In emergencies callers should ask for a consultant, indicating the code word "malignant hyperthermia" and give their name, the name of the institution and the telephone number.
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Anasth Intensivther Notfallmed · Oct 1987
Case Reports Comparative Study[Erroneous determination of arterial blood pressure depending on the site of measurement, in excessive catecholamine therapy in low cardiac output syndrome].
Five cases are presented where invasive measurement of blood pressure in the femoral or radial artery alone resulted in considerable underestimation of the systemic pressure. This underlines the need to compare measurement values obtained by an invasive method, critically with the overall clinical pattern presented by the patient and to countercheck on these data--as the case may be--by effecting appropriate measurements in other arteries as well.