The toxicity of antidepressant poisoning: Is it changing? A comparative study of cyclic and newer serotonin-specific antidepressants

Emergency Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 440-446

  Graudins, Andis ^a   Dowsett, Robert P ^a   Liddle, Christopher ^a  

^a WESTMEAD HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Antidepressants; Poisoning; Serotonin syndrome

Indexed keywords

AMITRIPTYLINE; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; CITALOPRAM; DOSULEPIN; DOXEPIN; FLUOXETINE; FLUVOXAMINE; IMIPRAMINE; MOCLOBEMIDE; MONOAMINE OXIDASE INHIBITOR; NEFAZODONE; PAROXETINE; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; SERTRALINE; SODIUM CARBONATE; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; VENLAFAXINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG INTOXICATION; DRUG OVERDOSE; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; SEROTONIN SYNDROME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS, TRICYCLIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONOAMINE OXIDASE INHIBITORS; NEW SOUTH WALES; OVERDOSE; POISON CONTROL CENTERS; SEROTONIN SYNDROME; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITORS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 0036916118     PISSN: 10356851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1442-2026.2002.00384.x     Document Type: Article

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