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Clinical review: Treatment of heat stroke: should dantrolene be considered?

Eran Hadad, Yoav Cohen-Sivan, Yuval Heled and Yoram Epstein*

Critical Care 2005, 9:86-91 doi:10.1186/cc2923

Dantrolene and rapid cooling.........other uses besides HS?

Darryll Barksdale   (2004-08-17 22:23)  ERG, Ltd. email

I see the occasional methamphetamine overdose who is markedly hyperthermic. These patients always present a problem in reducing their core temps. Based upon the results of this study, could Dantrolene be used in this class of patients?

Competing interests

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