Magnesium-aluminum hydroxide suspension for the treatment of dermal capsaicin exposures

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 688-690

  Lee, David C ^a   Ryan, James R ^a  

^a NORTH SHORE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Aluminum; Capsaicin; Magnesium; Pain; Skin; Visual analog scale

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM MAGNESIUM HYDROXIDE; CAPSAICIN; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG COST; DRUG EFFICACY; EXPOSURE; FOREARM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PAIN; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SIDE EFFECT; SKIN; SUSPENSION; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

EID: 0038616402     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2003.tb00057.x     Document Type: Article

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