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Successful treatment of chloral hydrate cardiac toxicity with propranolol
A Zahedi1, M H Grant, D T Wong
1Department of Medicine, The Toronto Hospital, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
The American Journal of Emergency Medicine
|September 25, 1999
Abstract:
A case of chloral hydrate overdose causing resistant ventricular arrhythmias is presented. Our case and other case reports suggest that chloral hydrate-induced arrhythmias are resistant to standard antiarrhythmic agents and that intravenous beta blockers should be the firstline treatment for these arrhythmias.