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

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

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



See related commentary http://ccforum.com/content/9/1/23

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

Darryll Barksdale   (17 August 2004)  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?

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