Massive digoxin ingestion. Report of a case and review of currently available therapies.
- 1 June 1977
- Vol. 39 (6), 688-692
- https://doi.org/10.1136/hrt.39.6.688
Abstract
Recent reports of treatment of massive digoxin overdosage have emphasized the success of medical therapy. This report describes a fatal outcome to this problem despite aggressive medical management, including pervenous cardiac pacing and draws attention to deficiencies in current treatment of a serious problem.This publication has 24 references indexed in Scilit:
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