Clinical Application of Intravenous Lipid Emulsion Therapy in Cocaine-associated Cardiac Arrest: A Case Report

Cardiac arrest in the setting of cocaine use portends high morbidity and mortality secondary to its powerful sodium channel blockade effects. Intravenous (IV) lipid emulsion has long been used as a rescue therapy in lipophilic toxicities.

We report a case in which IV lipid emulsion was used to successfully stabilize a patient who suffered cocaine-associated, out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.

Intravenous lipid emulsion was used in the successful resuscitation of a cocaine overdose and could be considered for use in patients with cocaine-associated cardiac arrest.