Advances in application of lipid emulsion in acute poisioning

Lipid emulsion has been used not only as nutrition in clinic practice, but also recently as an adjuvant therapy of lipophilic drugs poisioning, which is most likely to cause cardiopulmonary arrest and brings difficulty to conventional treatments. More and more reports of whether studies in labs or clinic cases suggest that lipid emulsion can be adopted as one of therapies for lipophilic drugs poisioning. The article mainly sums up the development of lipid emulsion remedy against lipophilic drugs poisioning in the hope of providing reference for clinical application of lipid emulsion to detoxification. Key words: Lipid emulsion; Liposoluble drugs; Acute poisoning; Cardiopulmonary arrest