İstanbul Medical Journal (Nov 2020)

Methaemoglobinemia Developing Following Lidocain Use

  • Seher Erdoğan,
  • Gürkan Atay,
  • Tuğçe Bozkurt Mersin,
  • Hüsniye İşcan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.4274/imj.galenos.2020.22308
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 21, no. 6
pp. 484 – 485

Abstract

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Methaemoglobinemia is a severe haematological disease occurring when haemoglobin Fe+2 is oxidised to Fe+3, and characterised by cyanosis due to inability to transport sufficient oxygen to the tissues. Our case report is a 1-year-old Syrian girl administered local lidocaine for analgesic purposes due to burns who later developed methaemoglobinemia and was treated in our paediatric intensive care unit.

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