Methemoglobinemia is defined as an increase in methemoglobin of > 2% of hemoglobin. Ketamine is increasingly used for severe depression. To our knowledge, a patient with mitochondrial encephalopathy, lactic acidosis and stroke‐like episodes (MELAS) who died suddenly and unexpectedly 1–12 h after ketamine infusion with high postmortem methemoglobin has not yet been reported. The patient was a...
Objective. To describe the case of a patient who developed a serotonin syndrome due to a 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine ingestion with electrical storm and refractory cardiac arrest. Design. Case report. Study Selection. ICU of a university hospital. Patient. A 22-year-old man transferred to the emergency room with hyperthermia, tremors, and mydriasis presented a cardiac arrest due to...