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Meislin et al showed that neurologic injuries and circulatory collapse or hemorrhage accounted for over 80% of early deaths (19).

Timing and causes of death after injuries

Treatment of such cases should be managed with critical care support, and it should be remembered that rapid infusion of suramin may precipitate circulatory collapse.

Multiorgan dysfunction caused by travel-associated African trypanosomiasis

Daniel then suffered circulatory collapse when he was just a day old.

Teenager receives pounds 5.5m for 'abysmal' hospital blunders

Reports show Daniel was not ventilated and when he suffered a circulatory collapse, medics starved him of oxygen for between 10 and 25 minutes, causing permanent and significant damage to his brain.

pounds 5m for Danny; Hospital's payout after boy left brain damaged

The patient died of refractory cardiac dysrhythmia and circulatory collapse approximately 36 hours after the first signs of propofol infusion syndrome appeared.

Propofol infusion syndrome: a case of increasing morbidity with traumatic brain injury

The condition can cause circulatory collapse, leading to organ failure and death.

Arginox Pharmaceuticals Reaches 50 Percent Enrollment Target in Its Pivotal Phase 3 Study of Tilarginine Acetate Injection in Cardiogenic Shock

Unfortunately, continued use of these drugs could lead to medical problems such as addiction and, worse, circulatory collapse.

Headache history: how a common ailment--the headache--became the center of a multibillion-dollar pharmaceutical industry in the United States

Unfortunately, continued use of these drugs proved addictive and could lead to circulatory collapse.