Pediatric gamma hydroxybutyrate intoxication

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 1041-1045

  Suner, Selim ^a,b,c   Szlatenyi, Stephen ^a,b,c   Wang, Richard Y ^a,b,c  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Emergency Medicine ^*  (United States)

^c RHODE ISLAND HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Altered mental status; Coma; Gamma hydroxybutyrate; Intoxication; Pediatric; Poisoning; Toxicology

Indexed keywords

4 HYDROXYBUTYRIC ACID; GAMMA BUTYROLACTONE; SODIUM HYDROXIDE;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; COMA; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; HUMAN; INTOXICATION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0030725298     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.1997.tb03677.x     Document Type: Article

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