Population
75-year-old man with esophageal carcinoma post-esophagectomy, hypothermic, under epidural anesthesia, with a…
Design
Case_report
Follow-up
Until ICU discharge on the following day
Authors
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May signal risk of severe bradycardia with IV nicardipine in hypothermic patients with sympathetic blockade; hypothesis-generating and should not yet change practice.
Intravenous nicardipine should be administered with caution in hypothermic patients with sympathetic blockade due to the risk of severe bradycardia.
Arima et al. (2002) studied this question.
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