Acute care for alcohol intoxication: Be prepared to consider clinical dilemmas

Postgraduate Medicine

Volumn 112, Issue 6, 2002, Pages

  Yost, David A ^a  

^a Whiteriver US Pub Hlth Serv Hosp   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CHLORAL HYDRATE; CHLORPROPAMIDE; DISULFIRAM; METRONIDAZOLE; SULFONAMIDE;

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOL INTOXICATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONFERENCE PAPER; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; MENTAL HEALTH;

EID: 0036918492     PISSN: 00325481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3810/pgm.2002.12.1361     Document Type: Conference Paper

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