Cardiac arrest following butane inhalation. 2015

Ahmet Sen, and Basar Erdivanli
Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Medical Faculty, Recep Tayyip Erdogan University, Rize, Turkey.

Butane is a commonly misused volatile agent, and a cause of intoxication. We present a case, who had a syncope and persistent ventricular fibrillation during the course of resuscitation. We discussed the management of this case in the intensive care unit and the accompanying difficulties in the light of the current literature.

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