Use of pharmaceutical promotility agents in the treatment of body packers [7]

American Journal of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 511-512

  Traub, Stephen J ^a   Su, Mark ^a   Hoffman, Robert S ^a   Nelson, Lewis S ^a  

^a NEW YORK CITY POISON CONTROL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERYTHROMYCIN; ILLICIT DRUG; METOCLOPRAMIDE;

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADULT; BODY PACKING; CASE REPORT; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TRAFFIC; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; GASTROINTESTINAL TRANSIT; HUMAN; INTESTINE LAVAGE; LETTER; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0142250941     PISSN: 07356757     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0735-6757(03)00090-1     Document Type: Article

References (2)

1. Hoffman RS, Smilkstein MJ, Goldfrank LR: Whole bowel irrigation and the cocaine body-packer: a new approach to a common problem. Am J Emerg Med 1990;8:523-527
2. Brunton LL: Agents affecting gastrointestinal water flux and motility; emesis and antiemetics; bile acids and pancreatic enzymes. In: Hardman JG, Limbird LE, Molinoff PB, eds. Goodman & Gilman's The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics 9th ed New York: McGraw-Hill; 1996:917-936