Poisoning in children 3: Common medicines

Archives of Disease in Childhood

Volumn 87, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 400-402

  Riordan, M ^a   Rylance, G ^b   Berry, K ^c  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ROYAL VICTORIA INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^c BIRMINGHAM CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ACTIVATED CARBON; ANTIASTHMATIC AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT; BENZODIAZEPINE; BENZODIAZEPINE RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; BETA 2 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; BICARBONATE; CODEINE; DECONGESTIVE AGENT; DEFEROXAMINE; DEXTROMETHORPHAN; EXPECTORANT AGENT; FLUMAZENIL; GUAIFENESIN; IPECAC; IRON; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT; OPIATE; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; PARACETAMOL; PROPRANOLOL; SALBUTAMOL; SALICYLIC ACID; THEOPHYLLINE; THIOGLYCOLIC ACID; UNINDEXED DRUG; VITAMIN;

AGITATION; ATAXIA; BRADYCARDIA; CHILD; COMA; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONFUSION; CONVULSION; CORROSION; DIARRHEA; DROWSINESS; DRUG OVERDOSE; FLUSHING; GASTROINTESTINAL TOXICITY; HALLUCINATION; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPERTENSION; HYPOKALEMIA; HYPOTENSION; INGESTION; INTOXICATION; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; NAUSEA; OROPHARYNX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATION DEPRESSION; SIDE EFFECT; TACHYCARDIA; TREMOR; VAGINA BLEEDING; VOMITING;

ANTI-ASTHMATIC AGENTS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; ANTITUSSIVE AGENTS; BENZODIAZEPINES; CHILD; CONTRACEPTIVES, ORAL; HISTAMINE H1 ANTAGONISTS; HUMANS; IRON; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; NASAL DECONGESTANTS; POISONING; VITAMINS;

EID: 0036830102     PISSN: 00039888     EISSN: 14682044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/adc.87.5.400     Document Type: Conference Paper

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